From the office of "What can't Linux run on?" comes a story about a high school student on a mission to prove that an interactive PDF can run all sorts of things. Essentially, the apps (and now the ...

PostScript started out as a programming language for printers. While PostScript printers are still a thing, there are many other ways to send data to a printer. But PostScript also spawned the ...

This Linux distro runs in a JavaScript-compiled RISC-V emulator within a PDF. This PDF file format supports Javascript ...

What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV? First came Tetris, then Doom – and now a bare-bones Linux instance that boots inside a PDF.… Yes, the humble PDF – thanks to its ability to run limited JavaScript – has ...

On Windows and Mac machines, it’s not too troublesome to add text or drawings (such as signatures) to PDF files, but [Mansour Behabadi] found that on Linux machines, there didn’t seem to be a ...

PDFs have become quite a staple in our digital lives, and it's likely that you use them more often than you realize. Perhaps you're a student doing research for multiple school projects, or possibly ...

There are a number of ways to extract a range of pages from a PDF file: there are PDF related toolkits for doing it, or you can use Ghostscript directly. For example, to extract pages 22-36 from a 100 ...

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 ...

In the comments to my recent post about dumping Windows and installing Linux Mint, in just 10 minutes, someone asked for an article about how to actually do things in Linux. That's certainly a fair ...

IT white papers, webcasts, case studies, and much more - all free to registered TechRepublic members. This glossary will help you grasp the vocabulary behind the technology of drones, so that you can ...