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DOCENG 2014: PDF tutorial

Published: 16 September 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Many billions of documents are stored in the Portable Document Format (PDF). These documents contain a wealth of information and yet PDF is often seen as an inaccessible format and, for that reason, often gets a very bad press. In this tutorial, we get under the hood of PDF and analyze the poor practices that cause PDF files to be inaccessible. We discuss how to access the text and graphics within a PDF and we identify those features of PDF that can be used to make the information much more accessible. We also discuss some of the new ISO standards that provide profiles for producing Accessible PDF files.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated, Portable Document Format Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley, June 1993.
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Acrobat Developer Center, Adobe Systems Inc. Available at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat.html
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PDFlib. PDFlib GmbH. Available at http://www.pdflib.com/
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Apache PDFBox. Available at https://pdfbox.apache.org/
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iText, iText Group NV. Available at http://itextpdf.com/
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XPDF: A pdf viewer for X. Glyph & Cog, 2005. Available at: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

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  • (2017)Accessibility of Portable Document Format in Education RepositoriesProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers10.1145/3175536.3175574(239-242)Online publication date: 20-Dec-2017

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DocEng '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM symposium on Document engineering
September 2014
226 pages
ISBN:9781450329491
DOI:10.1145/2644866
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Published: 16 September 2014

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  1. compilation
  2. document format
  3. interpretation
  4. page description languages
  5. pdf

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DocEng '14
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DocEng '14: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2014
September 16 - 19, 2014
Colorado, Fort Collins, USA

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DocEng '14 Paper Acceptance Rate 15 of 41 submissions, 37%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 194 of 564 submissions, 34%

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  • (2017)Accessibility of Portable Document Format in Education RepositoriesProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers10.1145/3175536.3175574(239-242)Online publication date: 20-Dec-2017

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