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Software relating to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) file format; including creation, conversion, and editing tools.

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• Programming Libraries
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Resources in This Category

• Adobe Acrobat: The Killer App of Online Publishing

  http://www.zinebook.com/resource/adobe.html
  Mike Lee explains why he's in love with Adobe Acrobat as a way to publish in digital format.

• Adult PDF

  http://www.adultpdf.com/
  PDF conversion and manipulation tools.

• Affordable PDF Tools

  http://www.a-pdf.com/
  Merge, split or alter PDF files.

• Aloaha

  http://www.aloaha.com/
  Offers a wide range of PDF solutions.

• Altsoft

  https://www.alt-soft.com/
  .NET frameworks for XML data formatting and font editing.

• Apago

  http://www.apagoinc.com/
  Software to create, manipulate and optimize PDF files.

• BookletCreator

  http://bookletcreator.com/
  A tool to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding, a book is created.

• Broadgun Software Pty Ltd.

  http://www.broadgun.com/
  pdfMachine produces quality PDF files. Features include multilingual font support, editing capabilities, and integrates with MAPI compliant mail programs.

• Classic PDF editor

  http://www.classicpdf.com/
  Software to create, view, edit and convert PDF files.

• Debenu

  http://www.debenu.com/arts-pdf/
  Developers of acrobat plugins and tools for creating layers, increasing form usability, color production printing, image editing. Details of products and demos to download.

• Drumlin

  http://www.drumlinsecurity.com/
  Free PDF reader software for Windows, Mac and iOS for normal and security-enhanced PDFs. Create secure, strongly-encrypted PDF documents with optional digital rights management using the Drumlin secure PDF publisher.

• Enfocus Software

  http://www.enfocus.com/
  Detrails of the PDF and PostScript tools available.

• FinePrint

  http://www.fineprint.com/
  A variety of tools to create and print PDF files.

• Foxit Software Company

  https://www.foxitsoftware.com/
  PDF Editor and compact reader.

• FoxPDF

  http://www.foxpdf.com/
  Professional PDF reader, editor and converter.

• FPDF

  http://www.fpdf.org/
  Provide a PHP class, which allows to generate PDF files without using the PDFlib library.

• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview

  http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
  An interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, and related software and documentation.

• GsPdf

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gspdf
  A frontend to Ghostscript to produce PDF files. Automatic PDF document name by extracting PDF content using regular expressions. Encryption.

• Guaranteed PDF Decrypter

  http://www.guapdf.com/
  A utility to decrypt password-protected PDF files with guarantee, regardless of password used. Demo available. [Windows, Linux, Solaris]

• JagPDF

  http://www.jagpdf.org/
  A free, open source library for generating PDF documents. The library is written in C++ and provides bindings for other languages.

• Jaws PDF Software

  http://www.jawspdf.com/
  Developer of PostScript interpreters and PDF software tools and technologies to enable you to convert, write, and deliver PostScript, HTML, images and other documents. PDF creator and server available.

• llionsoft

  http://www.llion.net/
  llPDFLib is an Object Pascal library for creation of PDF documents.

• Master PDF Editor

  http://code-industry.net/
  Cross-platform PDF and XPS Editor.

• Multilizer PDF Translator

  http://pdf.multilizer.com/
  Picks all the strings to translate and displays them in a grid. They can be translated manually or with a machine translation (Google) engine.

• Mustang project:

  http://www.mustangproject.org/
  An open-source Java library to read and write e-invoices in the ZUGFeRD-Format, which basically consists of PDFs with embedded XML invoice metadata.

• Novelang

  http://novelang.sourceforge.net/
  Takes plain text files (wiki-like syntaxt) and transforms them into nicely-formatted documents like PDF or HTML.

• Panda PDF Generator

  http://www.stillhq.com/panda/
  Panda is an open source PDF generation API.

• PDF Converter

  http://www.pdfonline.com/
  Converts documents into PDF format, and PDF documents into a number of other formats for free.

• PDF Converter

  http://www.freepdfconvert.com/
  Online web-based document to PDF converter software. Converts and creates PDF from various types of files like DOC, XLS, and PPT.

• PDF Helper

  http://www.pdf-helper.com/
  PDF to word/images/HTML/text software products.

• PDF ShapingUp

  http://www.aplixio.com/en/full-or-free-pdf-editor
  PDF editor to easily manage, secure, convert and change PDF documents. Available for free with restricted features.

• PDF Solutions for Windows 10

  http://www.windows10pdf.com/
  Includes PDF Writer for Windows 10, an alternative to Print as a pdf printer with more features, and PDF Writer for Windows Server 2016.

• PDF Tools AG

  http://www.pdf-tools.com/
  Command line tools and library APIs for document conversion and manipulation. Also provide toolkits for encryption, form filling and flattening, imaging, merging, splitting, information retrieval, content construction, image conversion.

• PDFBinder

  http://code.google.com/p/pdfbinder/
  A simple tool to merge several PDF documents into one.

• PDFedit

  http://pdfedit.petricek.net/
  Free editor for manipulating PDF documents, with command line and graphical interfaces. Includes news, screenshots, and download. [Unix]

• PDFjam

  http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam/
  Shell scripts that provide a command-line interface to the pdfpages package for pdfLaTeX. Download and description of the functions to allow the joining (pdfjoin), rotating (pdf90) and n-up-ing (pdfnup) of PDF files.

• PDFlib

  http://www.pdflib.com/
  An ANSI C library to dynamically generate PDF files.

• PDFMeat

  http://code.google.com/p/pdfmeat/
  PDF MEtadata Acquisition Tool to retrieve (and update) metadata of scholarly/scientific papers.

• PDFreaders.org

  http://www.pdfreaders.org/
  Initiated by the Free Software Foundation Europe, promotes versions of PDF files which qualify as an Open Standard and provides links to open source PDF readers.

• Pdfsam

  http://www.pdfsam.org/
  An open source, cross-platform tool that allows to split, merge and otherwise manipulate PDF documents. Screenshots, FAQ, documentation and a support forum.

• PDFtk

  https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
  A software toolkit which performs a range of manipulations on PDF files. List of features, example usage. Open source GPL licence.

• PDFTron

  http://www.pdftron.com/
  Software development and consulting company based in Vancouver, Canada, specializing in PDF, SVG, and PostScript technologies for the graphics and publishing industries.

• PDiff

  http://www.csci.de/en/pdiff
  Compares the contents of two PDFs in order to pinpoint all textual changes.

• PixelPlanet

  https://www.pixelplanet.com/
  Converter, editor and other PDF software for Windows and Mac OS X.

• PrintToPDF

  http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html
  Shareware Macintosh printer driver that creates PDF files.

• PS2PDF.com

  http://www.ps2pdf.com/
  Free online Postscript to Acrobat file converter. It uses AFPL Ghostscript to converts a user supplied Postscript file to PDF file. Provides FAQs, help files.

• Qiqqa

  http://www.qiqqa.com/
  A PDF viewer, annotater and management program that performs OCR and full text indexing of PDFs.

• RadaeePDF SDK

  http://www.radaeepdf.com/
  PDF rendering and manipulating engine for mobile operating systems.

• ReMarkspdf

  http://www.remarkspdf.com/
  PDF editor designed for providing feedback on student assessment.

• Safeguard Enterprise PDF DRM

  http://pdfdrmenterprise.com/
  Prevents unauthorized access of PDF documents with AES 256 bit encryption and DRM controls.

• SANFACE Software

  http://www.sanface.com/
  Developers of perl conversion to PDF utilities, including txt2pdf, txt2pdf PRO, jpg2pdf, jpg2pdf, data2pdf products.

• Skim

  http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
  Free, open source PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X. Web site includes screenshots, a manual, a wiki and a mailing-list.

• Soda PDF

  http://sodapdf.com/
  PDF reading and editing software.

• Solid documents

  http://www.soliddocuments.com/
  Various PDF tools.

• Sumatra PDF

  http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html
  A free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Includes screen shots, documentation and a support forum.

• Tracker Software

  http://www.tracker-software.com/
  PDF-XChange Editor and other software specialized in creating and managing PDF documents.

• Visual Software Laser Printing Solutions

  http://www.visual.co.uk/
  LaserJet PCL printing, viewing and conversion software, PC and Unix. Pcl2pdf, Forms Electric.

• WebSuperGoo - AbcPDF and ImageGlue

  http://www.websupergoo.com/
  Create Adobe PDF documents from ASP, ASP.NET, VB or any environment that supports ActiveX. Add text, images and graphics.

• WinCE PDF Viewer

  http://www.novosoft-us.com/customers/projects_description_st.shtml?PDFViewer
  PDF viewer for mobile devices running on Windows CE platform, that allows viewing PDF files, annotate documents, create bookmarks, view pictures (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG), and open eBook documents on a handheld PDA.

• xPDF

  http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
  A file viewer that runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

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