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2007

PDF Shrink. $35 OS X app that crunches down the size of PDF files—useful if you often embed photos in your presentations.

# 28th May 2007, 2:21 pm / pdfshrink, pdf, presentations, osx

The Adobe PDF XSS Vulnerability. If you host a PDF file anywhere on your site, you’re vulnerable to an XSS attack due to a bug in Acrobat Reader versions below 8. The fix is to serve PDFs as application/octet-stream to avoid them being displayed inline.

# 11th January 2007, 4:23 pm / security, adobe, pdf, vulnerability, xss

2002

PHP generated PDFs

R&OS PDF PHP classes (via tidak ada). This is the most useful PHP library I’ve seen in a long time. It allows dynamic generation of PDF files without needing any additional modules installed on the server (although GD is required if you want to add images to your PDFs). It is extremely easy to use and has an impressive set of features, including PDF drawing tools, built in page number support and excellent documentation. On the topic of PDFs, Yes You Can advocates their use for presentations and touches on a method of generating them using Python.