Encapsulated Post Script (EPS) is a standard graphics file format for working with text, images, drawings, and layouts that can be dismantled into their component parts and then be combined into a final completed document. EPS files can present both... Read More

The watermark object created by the PDF Library PDDocAddWatermarkFromText() API is a form XObject in the PDF document, with Optional Content with the name “/Watermark.” If you create a watermark in a PDF document using the Watermark feature in... Read More

You can specify an earlier version if you like, but this does not actually affect the metadata content that is generated for the PDF document. What you are doing is changing the version number so that the document will pass review. This change does... Read More

When your application starts, it will call the PDFLInitHFT() method to begin the initialization process for the Library. When the Library initializes it compiles a list of all its available resources. In particular it identifies the file folders... Read More

Using the Adobe PDF Library, you can access the XML structure behind an XFA form field. XFA, or XML Forms Architecture, is a set of proprietary XML specifications for use with web forms. XFA forms are saved within a PDF document. If you want to merge... Read More

A Forms Data Format (FDF) file is a text file used by Adobe Acrobat to hold values exported from PDF forms documents. The Adobe PDF Library views an FDF file as a COS document. As such, it can be opened by the Adobe PDF Library, and can be used with... Read More

Adobe PDF Library honors any document security found in an input PDF document. If the document is password-protected, the application will need to provide the correct Owner or User password required to open it. If the document is opened with the... Read More

Refrying is the process of converting a PDF file into PostScript (or EPS) and back again to PDF. Though this practice of at least a double conversion (PDF to PostScript then from PostScript back to PDF) is no longer as commonly used, our Support team... Read More

Understanding and Resolving Extra Spaces in Text Extraction The Details Users may encounter an issue when utilizing the Extract Text API within certain software environments, where the output extraction is inserting problematic spaces after most... Read More

This error usually appears when the expiration date has passed for the link used to download an eBook from Adobe Content Server. In a normal workflow, an .acsm file is generated for a book that is used as the link to download the actual book. This... Read More