I rely on a handful of open-source web apps that handle everyday tasks without installing anything locally.

Open-source tools are more prevalent and important to use than ever before, especially if you’re trying to make the switch from Adobe software like Acrobat. With more data farming, AI integration, and ...

Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular choice for exchanging documents over the Internet, but how do you access and present PDF files in your Java applications? Jeff Friesen introduces ...

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Many businesses use the PDF format to create uneditable versions of documents such as e-books and product manuals. If you want to turn a PDF file into an editable PPT file for Microsoft PowerPoint, ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Google taken its PDFium software library forward into open source project status. PDFium is an open-source PDF ...

Ghostscript, an open-source interpreter for PostScript language and PDF files widely used in Linux, has been found vulnerable to a critical-severity remote code execution flaw. The flaw is tracked as ...

From Duane Nickull comes word that Adobe is making PDF an open standard, submitting it to the ISO. This doesn't make Acrobat open source. Proprietary standards are offered to standards bodies all the ...