Tag Archives: PDF

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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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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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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Acrobat was nimble, Acrobat was quick

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Karl De Abrew

Looks like it’s action stations over at Adobe — my good mate Don from PDFzone reports that sources tell him that the new Acrobat.com may enable document sharing direct from their own servers. As Don says, it might be of … Continue reading →

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CRE8 Conference 2008

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Rowan Hanna

The CRE8 Conference for creative, marketing and communications professionals will be held between April 30 and May 1 at Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida. If you can drag yourself away from the fun and games for long enough you’ll … Continue reading →

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Don on DVD?

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Karl De Abrew

I was chatting with a good friend of mine, Don Fluckinger, about storage and retrieval of his various pieces of content all over the web and throughout print publications. First up, a quick intro to Don: If you’re a member … Continue reading →

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