Category Archives: Tips & Tutorials

Receive bank statements via email

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Rowan Hanna

For the past few years I have been asking my bank why I couldn’t receive bank statements electronically via email, instead of receiving paper statements through the post. The advantage of doing things the electronic way, were obvious to me, … Continue reading →

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How to keep documents digital from day one…

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Karl De Abrew

Keeping on the “less-paper” theme — we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to keep paper as trees, and not churning out of printers. Which is why we were pleased to see that long-time PDF expert, Shlomo Perets of MicroType, … Continue reading →

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“Paperless offices” an elusive dream?

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Karl De Abrew

A recent report by market intelligence company IDC revealed that 60% of responding Australian businesses produced more paper print-outs today than they had five years ago. This figure makes the eager projections of the early noughties look rather optimistic. The … Continue reading →

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PDF format becomes ISO standard

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Rowan Hanna

The Portable Document Format (PDF), created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange, officially become an ISO standard last Wednesday morning. The ISO standard (now known as ISO 32000-1:2008) is version 1.7 of the PDF specification and is available … Continue reading →

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What is PDF/A?

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Rowan Hanna

PDF/A is a subset of PDF designed for long-term archiving. In order to make it suitable for long-term archiving certain PDF features, such as JavaScript support, embedding of audio/video content and encryption, were removed. In addition, use of standards-based metadata … Continue reading →

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Where’s that file?

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Karl De Abrew

“Document management” was previously the domain of librarians and nerds in the filing room (no offense!). However, with the deluge of email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, invoices, reports, and even more, it’s now a problem that everyone has to deal with. … Continue reading →

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Document metadata in PDFs

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Rowan Hanna

More than a few people have been caught out by sharing documents which had sensitive information hidden in document metadata. These slip-ups are primarily caused by a lack of understanding about document metadata — what it is, how it is … Continue reading →

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tag2find

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Karl De Abrew

Take a look at tag2find — it’s an interesting solution to the problem of tagging (and finding) everything on your desktop. You can download a “technical preview” for XP and Vista. At 2.3mb it’s a quick and easy download, although … Continue reading →

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Get smart

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Rowan Hanna

In a nutshell, what we’re looking to do is to overcome the problems inherent in a folder-based system. Remember the days of trying to locate a physical file you dropped in the wrong folder in a physical filing cabinet. In … Continue reading →

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Personal document management

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Rowan Hanna

Recently a friend asked me a simple question: what do you mean by personal document management? Since this concept is at the core of what we’re doing with Benubird, I thought I would quickly expand on it. It’s fairly straightforward, … Continue reading →

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