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ZUGFeRD – A standard for electronic invoices in PDF/A format

Are you still sending out paper invoices to your business partners? Then you may be part of a dying breed. Although 90 percent of all invoices worldwide are still being sent out by post, experts predict that electronic i ...

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Maintenance and support

We offer a range of services in addition to our mature products. We can fall back on broad experience in the field of technology and with regard to business administration issues. Over the years we have created customize ...

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PDF SDKs: Open Source vs. Proprietary | Guide Part 1

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PDF SDKs: Open Source vs. Proprietary | Guide Part 2

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Getting started with PDF SDK | Quickstart Guide

PDF standards

PDF SDKs: Open Source vs. Proprietary | Guide Part 2

PDF essentials

PDF SDKs: Open Source vs. Proprietary | Guide Part 1

PDF standards

PDF Rendering 2.0 – next generation graphic engine for PDF

A good PDF rendering engine is an essential part of conversion, viewing, and printing tools. No matter which version the PDF documents have, accurate rendering and good image quality is crucial for many PDF processing wo ...

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Everything you should know about PDF/A-4

PDF/A-4 was published in the fall of 2020 and is therefore the latest part of the PDF/A series of standards. It is based on ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) and is both an evolution of PDF/A-3, which is based on ISO 32000-2 (PDF1.7 ...

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Controlling enveloping machines using OMR markers

In this new blog thread I'd like to inform you about new features and applications of our tools. Enveloping machines can be magically controlled with these tiny dashes called OMR markers on the border of a printed sheet. ...

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PDF transparency reviewed

This new blog thread is dedicated to the development of the PDF standard and its associated sub-standards. As a delegate of the Swiss Standardization Association (SNV) in the ISO Comittee I'm supposed to review all relat ...

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Stroking geometric paths - not as easy as it seems

In PDF geometric paths are simply described as lines and cubic bézier curves. The filling of a path is straight forward once one understands the even-odd and non-zero-winding rule. The stroking of a path however is not a ...

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