Portable Document Format - Graham Perrin on Diigo

19 Dec 09

Download of the Day: Skim
highlighting and circling
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- notes in outline
- jump to their locations
- only be read by Skim

SourceForge.net: Hidden Preferences — skim-app

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2009 2009-12 2009-12-19 device independent file format Portable Document Format

convert the DVI to PDF
Skim opens DVI files
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_independent_file_format - on 2009-12-19
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- dvipdfmx

11 Dec 09

Python Package Index : collective.pdfpeek

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2009 2009-12 2009-12-11 Portable Document Format Python (programming language) Plone (software)

plone.org page for this product: http://plone.org/products/collective.pdfpeek/ - grahamperrin on 2009-12-11

collective.pdfpeek
generates image thumbnail previews
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- preview and thumbnail images of each page of uploaded PDF
- annotated onto the content object containing the pdf
- generation currently takes place on object modified events

07 Dec 09

Academic software for research papers | Mendeley

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2009 2009-10 2009-10-22 research Portable Document Format HTML

referred from http://panospace.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/open-source-reference-manager/ via http://identi.ca/notice/12617828 - grahamperrin on 2009-10-22
The focus on PDF is unappealing.

See http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fsunlightlabs.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2Fadobe-bad-open-government?tab=comment&uname=grahamperrin - grahamperrin on 2009-10-29
The most recent version 0.9.5 of Mendeley Desktop is improved.

No longer limited to PDF. Now, HTML and some other types of attachment are possible.

Promising, but still a little rough around the edges. http://feedback.mendeley.com/users/610826 highlights some issues. - grahamperrin on 2009-12-07

Tools That Help You Say No To Acrobat's PDF Bloat | bMighty.com: Blogs For Small Business and Mid-Sized Business

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2009 2009-12 2009-12-06 Portable Document Format Microsoft Windows unread

referred from http://www.smallbizresource.com/bmightyblog/main/archives/2009/08/pdf_tools_for_t.html via http://www.macresearch.org/smallbiz-resource-profiles-pdf-tools-mac - grahamperrin on 2009-12-07

FormulatePro

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2009 2009-12 2009-12-05 Portable Document Format Mac OS X 2009-12-06

referred from http://www.smallbizresource.com/bmightyblog/main/archives/2009/08/pdf_tools_for_t.html via http://www.macresearch.org/smallbiz-resource-profiles-pdf-tools-mac - grahamperrin on 2009-12-07

04 Dec 09

Please do not use PDF document files for knowledge sharing — Appropedia: the sustainability wiki

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2009 2009-12 2009-12-04 Portable Document Format

referred from http://identi.ca/conversation/16069752#notice-16069752 - grahamperrin on 2009-12-04

Please do not use PDF document files for knowledge sharing
a major hindrance

03 Dec 09

Slim down your PDFs | Creative Notes | Macworld

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Nov 5, 2008
Slim down your PDFs
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- Compress large files without compromising image quality
- Adam Engst
- Preview and ColorSync

Open Government and PDF « Shebanator

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2009 2009-12 2009-12-02 Portable Document Format Adobe Systems open government

Compare with http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ftech-policy%2Fnews%2F2009%2F10%2Fadobe-pushes-flash-and-pdf-for-open-government-misses-irony.ars%3Futm_source%3Drss%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Drss?tab=comment&uname=grahamperrin - grahamperrin on 2009-12-03
Not as well balanced as the posts/comments at Sunlight Labs or Ars Technica. - grahamperrin on 2009-12-03

Open Government and PDF
whether governments are capable of publishing information
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- Show me an HTML creation tool that creates high quality, standards conformant markup from a Word document or any of the zillions of editing tools that government employees use
- tools used by people who submit documents to the government
- versions of those tools
- make sure that the HTML/XML works correctly even when the user doesn’t have the right browser or the right fonts
- no such conversion tools
- Creating PDFs is trivially easy
- Andrew Shebanow
- 02Nov09
- Responses to “Open Government and PDF”
- government should start by releasing data in whatever form takes the least effort
- I get the author’s frustration
- I agree Flash probably isn’t a good choice
- actively trying to help the government open up
- good work
- venting about something that makes that work harder
- only be able to view government documentation through the website of some sort of “trusted” intermediary
  - I disagree.
    
    The end results could be far greater. - on 2009-12-03
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- It’s not that I don’t think PDF is a useful tool—and I never said it wasn’t in my piece on Ars
- a variety of open standards
- it belongs in a toolbox
- PDFs often give the illusion of making a document available electronically
- without the reality
- the academic world — another place where reusability
  
  should triumph — has been equally and sadly myopic
- documents are published in a format that:
  
  has lasting archival value (will still be readable in 100 years)
  can be read by almost anyone regardless of OS or device
- Comments are closed

Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony

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2009 2009-12 2009-12-02 Portable Document Format Adobe Systems open government

Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony
Flash, PDF, and other technologies
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- fall short of the goal of full accessibility
- problems for those seeking to use government-supplied data in any meaningful way
- October 30, 2009
- Chris Foresman
- the entire site—designed in Flash—is practically inaccessible
- font override features won't work
- can't select, copy, or paste any text
- can't use the keyboard to scroll
- search won't work
- can't parse or scrape the data
- fixed-width, so it's not going to work
- plugins, like Greasemonkey, can't adjust anything
- if you don't like the style or are visually impaired, you're screwed
- when it comes to text
- technologies like Flash and PDF—while ubiquitous and useful—do not intrinsically make government more open
- PDF format is not easily parsable into other useful forms
- a particular format
- getting that formatted version
- Wrapping all publicly accessible information in proprietary formats is neither a good nor complete solution
- HTML, XML, JSON, ODF
- the goal of open government would be better served using open standards
- formats that are both accessible and machine-readable
- usable

29 Nov 09

Malware, but only for a second in a day | SophosLabs blog

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-17 Sophos malware Adobe Flash Portable Document Format Adobe Flash Player

a new form akin to the
1
one-time-pad concept is now being deployed
only for a second in a day
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- Malware
- Malware authors and software-protectionists alike go to great lengths to obfuscate and contort their code in an attempt to hide or obscure its true nature
- one-time-pad
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad - on 2009-11-16
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- when that script is submitted by the customer for analysis
- the environment has long been destroyed
- nearly impossible to decode
- quite likely malicious
- PDF, or Flash element
- any scanning engine which has access to the HTTP data stream should be able to cope
- Just in time
- the only real way to tackle this problem is
- failing that, NoScript remains your best protection
- on-access
  - Sophos Anti-Virus on-access scanning does not include network traffic to the browser:
    http://www.diigo.com/annotated?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FSophosLabs%2Fstatus%2F5798424527&uid=26573 - on 2009-11-29
  - On Mac OS X, does Sophos on-access scanning include the HTTP data stream? http://twitter.com/grahamperrin/status/5797623093 - on 2009-11-17
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- November 16th, 2009

14 Oct 09

Paperless Reading on Your Mac - AppleMatters

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Diigo review Mac OS X e-mail highlight Portable Document Format 2009

Bakari Chavanu wishes for a highlighter pen to work in Mail in Mac OS X. I like that idea. - grahamperrin on 2009-10-14

Paperless Reading
Oct 13, 2009
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- by Bakari Chavanu
- Recently, I’ve also discovered a great site called Diigo.com
- so accustomed now to using the highlighter in Preview and Diigo
- I want that same feature in Mail
  - As Mail.app uses WebKit, so something like this may be possible.
    
    However: the simple act of 'filing' a message — moving it from one mailbox to another — could be enough to break the reference point upon which a highlight might rely.
    
    I wonder how Qu-s handles references to messages that move. - on 2009-10-14
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12 Aug 09

Manage Your PDF Documents with Free Tools

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Portable Document Format Diigo 48946 2009

A Windows-centric view of four approaches. - grahamperrin on 2009-08-12

Here are some useful web apps and software tools that will help you better manage your collection of PDF documents
access them from other computers
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- 1. Mendeley Desktop - If you need access to your library of PDF documents on other computers
- for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
- indexes your local PDF files
- upload them
- 500 MB of free online storage
- tags, notes and other meta-data
- 2. Google Desktop - If you are looking to find that one PDF document from a pile of thousand
- index the full content of all PDF documents on your hard drive
- to limit your search to PDF
- filetype:pdf
- PDF search
- where that phrase is located
- highlight all occurrences
- can’t the free version for your office documents.
- as an online PDF organizer.
- 4. Scribd

11 Aug 09

WebbIE, the free web browser for blind people with little or no sight.

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accessibility blind visually impaired screen reader suite Windows Portable Document Format 2009

Indirect referral from http://www.diigo.com/06tj6 - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11
A day or so ago I installed this suite of applications on a new netbook running Windows XP, used by my friend Paul who is visually impaired. When I get feedback from him, I'll probably add a comment here. - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11

WebbIE browser, Accessible RSS news reader, Podcatcher and more
WebbIE is a web browser
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- It comes with the Accessible programs
- Together they provide a way to access websites and other great things online - and they are all free!

06 Aug 09

Creating large documents with OpenOffice.org Writer

PDF, 1 MB, 48 pages

https://www.sun.com/offers/docs/creating_large_docs_OpenOffice.pdf

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pdf unread Portable Document Format 2009

04 Aug 09

Declaration of John Perry Barlow

An expert report in the case of Capitol Records, Inc., et al versus Joel Tenenbaum. PDF.

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RIAA music share EFF unread Portable Document Format 2009

Referred from http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fjoelfightsback.com?tab=comment&uname=grahamperrin - grahamperrin on 2009-08-04
John Perry Barlow is vice chairman of the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). - grahamperrin on 2009-08-04

EICTA White Paper on Standardisation and Interoperability

PDF

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2006 unread Portable Document Format 2009

Referred from http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2F74.125.155.132%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AV0SWYX13tSYJ%3Awww.eicta.org%2Ffileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fdocument%2Fdocument1166544474.pdf%2BEICTA%252520%2BInteroperability%252520%2BWhite%2BPaper%26cd%3D1%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus?tab=comment&uname=garyedwards - grahamperrin on 2009-08-04

02 Aug 09

WPS: PostScript for the Web

A PostScript and PDF interpreter for HTML 5 canvas.

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PostScript interpret HTML 5 unread Portable Document Format 2009

Compare with AROfficeTransforms and ARFilePreview for Plone. - grahamperrin on 2009-08-02

30 Jul 09

DEVONthink 2.0

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annotate WebArchive link DEVON DEVONthink review unread Portable Document Format 2009 Uniform Resource Locator

as plain text, web archive, PDF, or HTML.
DEVONthink™ 2.0
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- Information Assistant
- Smart
- major update for all editions of DEVONthink and for DEVONnote
- Version 2.0
- largely rewritten database core
- usability and interface improvements
- New Features and Improvements
- not limited to:
- improved search
- advanced Boolean and proximity search operators
- Save even the most complex searches
- unlimited complexity of search terms
- seamlessly integrated
- smart groups
- Unlimited undo and redo
- comfortable
- Cover Flow lets you quickly browse
- Sorter
- drop documents or clippings
- even when DEVONthink is not open
- 'Clip to DEVONthink' bookmarklet
- or whole web pages
- save selected text
- web archive
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- Convert your scans to searchable PDFs
- preserves the original design
- invisible text layer that makes all recognized text selectable and searchable
- OCR engine is based on ABBYY FineReader
- All documents are stored as-is now
- link to them using a standard URL.
  - !
    
    Tag: review - on 2009-07-30
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- common file formats
- Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, iWork files, or Skim files.
- and displays
- indexes
- Mellel
- RSS feed support integrates news feeds with the rest of your documents
- let your colleagues access your DEVONthink
- Share your databases
- based on the latest web technologies
  - !
    
    Tag: review - on 2009-07-30
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- Windows friends are invited
- so are iPhone and iPod touch

DEVONthink Release Notes

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annotate highlight strike-through underline WebArchive Portable Document Format 2009

to PDF and main windows. More to come.
Simple PDF annotation functions (highlight, strike-through, underlining)
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- and web archives
  - WebArchive format, presumably. - on 2009-07-30
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- Highlighting, strike-through, and underlinding
- in editable PDFs
- PDFs and web archives requested by bookmarklets are generated
- using a background task

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