Archive for June, 2006

A few of my favorite tools

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

I thought I’d start things off with something useful to all comers…

Using the “Pages” feature of this software, I’ve added a new permanent place where I’ll be keeping a list of my favorite PDF programs/tools.

The first six tools to make the list are:

  • PDF CanOpener
  • PitStop Professional
  • FTMaster
  • Redax
  • Enfocus Browser
  • PDFlib Font Reporter

Go here for more details about each of the listed programs.

Introduction

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

It’s hard to imagine this - but some of you reading this blog might not know who I am…

First and foremost, I am the Chief Innovation Officer for Apago.  I am responsible for the design and development of our cross-platform PDF tools such as the award winning PDF Enhancer and our recently announced PDF/A tool, PDF Appraiser.

In addition, I continue to provide the ONLY Adobe-authorized Acrobat & PDF developer training as the Chief Technology Officer of PDF Sages.

I also do a lot of work with the Open Source community as a maintainer or contributor for a variety of projects related to PDF and graphics.

If you want to read more about me - you can check out my bio here.

Welcome

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

As the expression goes - “Enter at your own risk”…

This blog will be a place for me to comment on issues related to PDF and related standards such as PDF/A, PDF/X, etc. They will be usually, though not always, be of a technical nature. I will also try to drop in the occasion user tidbit or tip about using Acrobat or maybe some comments about other 3rd party software.

Hopefully you’ll find some things of value.

Leonard