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BFO Blog - Java PDF Software tips and tricks.
BFO PDF Library 2.28.4 - with PDF/UA-2 and WTPDF | Mark As Read |
This is the PDF/UA-2 release, and it also adds code for converting PDF to HTML. Read on for details.
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BFO PDF Library 2.28.3 is released | Mark As Read |
Release 2.28.3 of our PDF Library adds per-separation rendering for output preview, Factur-X, Document Parts and more.
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Print-preview rendering | Mark As Read |
Creating a bitmap image from a PDF is normally done in RGB, but when that PDF contains overprinting or depends on CMYK blending, you need something more. This article tells you how.
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BFO Publisher 1.3 released | Mark As Read |
The first update to BFO Publisher for 2023 adds some new features.
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BFO PDF Library 2.28.2 is released | Mark As Read |
Release 2.28.2 of our PDF Library adds a lot of under-the-hood changes to support the upcoming PDF/UA-2 profile.
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BFO PDF Library 2.28.1 - we broke timestamping | Mark As Read |
Our last release, only ten days ago, broke applying a timestamp with Digital Signatures. This is a fix.
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BFO PDF Library 2.28 - security and signatures | Mark As Read |
A minor security issue has been discovered and fixed in this release, and signatures have had a lot of improvements.
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Digitally signing a PDF with the GlobalSign Qualified Signing Service | Mark As Read |
GlobalSign have updated their digital signing service and now offer qualified signatures. We show you how to integrate this with our PDF library.
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BFO PDF Library 2.27.2 - introducing the Arlington Model | Mark As Read |
A slightly overdue announcement of BFO PDF Library 2.27.2, which introduces the "Arlington Model": a vendor-neutral validation model for PDF.
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BFO PDF Library 2.27 - a PDF/A update | Mark As Read |
Details on the latest release of our PDF Library, which has many fixes and improvements for PDF/A
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Announcing BFO Publisher | Mark As Read |
Our first completely new product in 20 years, we're finally able to tell you about it
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BFO PDF Library 2.26.4 and Report Generator 1.2.6 | Mark As Read |
Details on the latest release of our PDF Library, and the Report Generator build with it. This is the "certified with Java 17" release.,
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BFO and Log4J | Mark As Read |
Everyone is asking us about Log4J. Here's a quick statement.
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BFO PDF Library 2.26.2 and Report Generator 1.2.5 | Mark As Read |
Details on the latest release of our PDF Library, and the Report Generator build with it. This is the "certified with Java 17" release.,
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PDF/A at scale: analysis of a mass conversion | Mark As Read |
We've been running our PDF/A conversion tools across some large Corpora. Here's what we've learned in the process.
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BFO PDF Library 2.26.1 release announcement | Mark As Read |
Coming two months after one of our major releases, the 2.26.1 release has seen a large number of small changes based on testing on tens of thousands of documents. But we think the one you're going to notice is the improvements to logging. Read on for more detail.
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Using Webswing to simplify PDF Viewer deployment | Mark As Read |
The advantages of using Webswing to run PDF Viewer via a standard web browser
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Converting PDF to PDF/A | Mark As Read |
Converting PDF to PDF/A has always been possible with our API, but we largely left our customers to choose their own approach. Release 2.26 changes that - we now have a very powerful new API for conversion.
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BFO PDF Library 2.26 - a significant release | Mark As Read |
Our latest PDF Library release includes a lot of new functionality. Here's a summary, other articles will follow with details.
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Signing a PDF with Amazon CloudHSM | Mark As Read |
A quick note on signing PDFs with the Amazon CloudHSM
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BFO PDF Library 2.25 - what's new? | Mark As Read |
A quick summary of some of the new features in the PDF library in the latest release.
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BFO PDF Library 2.24.4 - what's new? | Mark As Read |
A quick summary of some of the new features in the PDF library in the last six months. Again.
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BFO PDF Library 2.24.2 - what's new? | Mark As Read |
A quick summary of some of the new features in the PDF library in the last six months.
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BFO Report Generator 1.2 with PDF/UA support | Mark As Read |
Built on our new PDF Library release, the latest Report Generator can easily create valid PDF/UA Documents.
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BFO PDF Library 2.24: a PDF/UA deep dive | Mark As Read |
The new release of our PDF Library has completely rewritten support for the Structure Tree, required for PDF/UA. While mainly to support the addition of PDF/UA to the Report Generator, if you're working with Tagged PDF this release has lots for you.
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Imperfect PDF Digital Signatures | Mark As Read |
Why policy decisions by Adobe are damaging trust in PDF digital signatures
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Perfect PDF Digital Signatures, EU style | Mark As Read |
An updated version of the article we wrote 8 years ago, exploring how to create digital signatures with our API that are automatically approved by Acrobat: this time, with an EU Identity card
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BFO releases Java PDF Library 2.23.2 | Mark As Read |
Release 2.23.2 adds a fix for a largely theoretical attack on PDF digital signatures, specifically the way they are verified with our API.
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BFO PDF Library 2.23 - the Java 11 release | Mark As Read |
Details on the recent 2.23 release of the PDF Library, and on where we are with Java version support
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BFO PDF Library 2.22.2 | Mark As Read |
This one has been a while cooking, because it includes a JPEG2000 decoder and a rewritten Indic layout engine
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JPEG2000, Java and PDF | Mark As Read |
This article shows how to add support for JPEG2000 image decoding to the PDF Library.hi (updated for 2018)
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Digitally signing a PDF with the GlobalSign Digital Signing Service | Mark As Read |
GlobalSign have recently launched a digital signing service, and in this article we show you how to integrate this with our PDF library.
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How to create very, very large pages in PDF | Mark As Read |
In the unlikely event you wish to make pages larger them 25m², here'a s quick primer on how to do it with the latest release.
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BFO releases Java PDF Library 2.22 | Mark As Read |
Changes include a reengineered text layout engine, updated internal Unicode model to version 10.0 and OpenType font parser to 1.8. GlobalSignDSS class added to create signatures that work with GlobalSign's digital signing service.
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Verify PDFA online | Mark As Read |
We've turned our PDF/A verification code into a public service, which you can use to compare our results to other testers.
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BFO releases Java PDF Library 2.20.3 | Mark As Read |
Our latest release contains updates, support for non-standard form fields and the usual minor array of bug fixes.
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PDF417 Barcodes, or, the nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from. | Mark As Read |
A mere 11 years after it was introduced, we have finally noticed an incompatible change in the PDF417 barcode specification.
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BFO releases Java PDF Library 2.20.2 | Mark As Read |
In our latest update we've added several new features and created fixes for some unsual issues.
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Creation of PDF/UA and PDF/A-3a documents | Mark As Read |
Our latest 2.20 release of the PDF Library adds full support for the creation of PDF/UA compliant documents, and hopefully this article will shed a little light on what they are.
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BFO releases Java PDF Library 2.20 | Mark As Read |
Our latest update includes several new features and fixes for some obscure problems.
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BFO releases Java PDF Library 2.19 | Mark As Read |
Our latest release includes several new features, such as supporting PDF/UA standards.
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How to Build an Image Extraction Webapp using Java | Mark As Read |
Our second image extraction article, this time using a java webapp.
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Extracting Images from PDF with the BFO PDF Library | Mark As Read |
The first of two articles demonstrating how to extract bitmap images from PDFs using the BFO PDF Library API.
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STMicroelectronics & BFO celebrate 10 year Anniversary | Mark As Read |
Swiss based systems integrator celebrates tenth anniversary deploying the BFO PDF Library Extended
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Merging and Concatenating PDFs | Mark As Read |
A few simple examples for how to merge PDFs with the BFO PDF Library.
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Working with LayoutBox | Mark As Read |
How to extract text from a PDF using BFOs PDF Library API. We will show you with code examples how it can be done.
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BFO Launch New Website! | Mark As Read |
At long last, our new website has been released. Same address but new content coming soon.
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Long-Term Validation of Signatures | Mark As Read |
One of the main new features in release 2.18.2 of our PDF Library was support for "Long Term Validation" of signatures. The purpose of these isn't immediately clear - read on for details.
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Software developers delighted with "wonderful" PDF Library | Mark As Read |
Swiss software house hails BFO for having the most stable support and cleanest API in the Java PDF market.
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PDF Library 2.18 and the OutputProfiler class | Mark As Read |
We detail the major new change in 2.18, the OutputProfiler class
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