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third edition

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Version 1.4

Adobe Systems Incorporated

ADDISON-WESLEY

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Capetown Sydney Tokyo Singapore Mexico City Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data PDF reference : Adobe portable document format version 1.4 / Adobe Systems

Incorporated. - 3rd ed.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-201-75839-3 (alk. paper)

1. Adobe Acrobat. 2. Portable document software. I. Adobe Systems.

QA76.76.T49 P38 2001

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First printing, December 2001

iii

Preface

xix

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 About This Book 1

1.2 Introduction to PDF 1.4 Features 4

1.3 Related Publications 5

1.4 Intellectual Property 6

Chapter 2: Overview

2.1 Imaging Model 10

2.2 Other General Properties 14

2.3 Using PDF 19

2.4 PDF and the PostScript Language 21

Chapter 3: Syntax

3.1 Lexical Conventions 24

3.2 Objects 27

3.3 Filters 41

3.4 File Structure 61

3.5 Encryption 71

3.6 Document Structure 81

3.7 Content Streams and Resources 92

3.8 Common Data Structures 98

3.9 Functions 106

3.10 File Specifications 118

Chapter 4: Graphics

131

4.1 Graphics Objects 132

4.2 Coordinate Systems 136

4.3 Graphics State 147

4.4 Path Construction and Painting 161

4.5 Color Spaces 172

4.6 Patterns 219

4.7 External Objects 261

4.8 Images 262

4.9 Form XObjects 281

4.10 PostScript XObjects 289

Chapter 5: Text

291

5.1 Organization and Use of Fonts 292

5.2 Text State Parameters and Operators 300

5.3 Text Objects 308

5.4 Introduction to Font Data Structures 314

5.5 Simple Fonts 316

5.6 Composite Fonts 334

5.7 Font Descriptors 355

5.8 Embedded Font Programs 364

5.9 ToUnicode CMaps 368

Chapter 6: Rendering

373

6.1 CIE-Based Color to Device Color 374

6.2 Conversions among Device Color Spaces 376

6.3 Transfer Functions 380

6.4 Halftones 382

6.5 Scan Conversion Details 403

Chapter 7: Transparency

409

7.1 Overview of Transparency 410

7.2 Basic Compositing Computations 412

7.3 Transparency Groups 425

7.4 Soft Masks 439

7.5 Specifying Transparency in PDF 441

7.6 Color Space and Rendering Issues 454

Chapter 8: Interactive Features

471

8.1 Viewer Preferences 471

8.2 Document-Level Navigation 474

8.3 Page-Level Navigation 481

8.4 Annotations 488

8.5 Actions 513

8.6 Interactive Forms 528

8.7 Sounds 568

8.8 Movies 570

Chapter 9: Document Interchange

573

9.1 Procedure Sets 574

9.2 Metadata 575

9.3 File Identifiers 580

9.4 Page-Piece Dictionaries 581

9.5 Marked Content 583

9.6 Logical Structure 588

9.7 Tagged PDF 612

9.8 Accessibility Support 651

9.9 Web Capture 659

9.10 Prepress Support 676

Appendix A: Operator Summary

699

Appendix B: Operators in Type 4 Functions

703

B.1 Arithmetic Operators 703

B.2 Relational, Boolean, and Bitwise Operators 704

B.3 Conditional Operators 704

B.4 Stack Operators 704

Appendix C: Implementation Limits

705

C.1 General Implementation Limits 706

C.2 Implementation Limits Affecting Web Capture 708

Appendix D: Character Sets and Encodings

709

D.1 Latin Character Set and Encodings 711

D.2 Expert Set and MacExpertEncoding 715

D.3 Symbol Set and Encoding 718

D.4 ZapfDingbats Set and Encoding 721

Appendix E: PDF Name Registry

723

Appendix F: Linearized PDF

725

F.1 Background and Assumptions 726

F.2 Linearized PDF Document Structure 728

F.3 Hint Tables 741

F.4 Access Strategies 751

Appendix G: Example PDF Files

757

G.1 Minimal PDF File 757

G.2 Simple Text String Example 760

G.3 Simple Graphics Example 762

G.4 Page Tree Example 765

G.5 Outline Tree Example 770

G.6 Updating Example 774

Appendix H: Compatibility and Implementation Notes 783

H.1 PDF Version Numbers 783

H.2 Feature Compatibility 786

H.3 Implementation Notes 787

Bibliography

811
Index 817
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Figures

2.1

Creating PDF files using PDF Writer 20

2.2

Creating PDF files using Acrobat Distiller 21

3.1

PDF components 24

3.2

Initial structure of a PDF file 62

3.3

Structure of an updated PDF file 70

3.4

Structure of a PDF document 82

3.5

Inheritance of attributes 92

3.6

Mapping with the

Decode

array 112 4.1

Graphics objects 135

4.2

Device space 138

4.3

User space 140

4.4

Relationships among coordinate systems 142

4.5

Effects of coordinate transformations 143

4.6

Effect of transformation order 144

4.7

Miter length 154

4.8

Cubic Bézier curve generated by the

c operator 165 4.9

Cubic Bézier curves generated by the

v and y operators 166 4.10

Nonzero winding number rule 170

4.11

Even-odd rule 171

4.12

Color specification 174

4.13

Color rendering 175

4.14

Component transformations in a CIE-based

ABC color space 182 4.15

Component transformations in a CIE-based

A color space 183 4.16 Starting a new triangle in a free-form Gouraud-shaded triangle mesh 245 4.17 Connecting triangles in a free-form Gouraud-shaded triangle mesh 246 4.18 Varying the value of the edge flag to create different shapes 247 4.19

Lattice-form triangle meshes 248

4.20 Coordinate mapping from a unit square to a four-sided Coons patch 251 4.21

Painted area and boundary of a Coons patch 252

4.22 Color values and edge flags in Coons patch meshes 254 4.23

Edge connections in a Coons patch mesh 255

4.24

Control points in a tensor-product patch 257

4.25

Typical sampled image 262

4.26

Source image coordinate system 265

4.27

Mapping the source image 266

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Glyphs painted in 50% gray 295

5.2

Glyph outlines treated as a stroked path 296

5.3

Graphics clipped by a glyph path 297

5.4

Glyph metrics 298

5.5 Metrics for horizontal and vertical writing modes 300 5.6

Character spacing in horizontal writing 303

5.7

Word spacing in horizontal writing 303

5.8

Horizontal scaling 304

5.9

Leading 304

5.10

Text rise 307

5.11

Operation of the

TJ operator in horizontal writing 312 5.12

Output from Example 5.9 327

5.13

Characteristics represented in the

Flags entry of a font descriptor 359 6.1

Various halftoning effects 389

6.2

Halftone cell with a nonzero angle 396

6.3

Angled halftone cell divided into two squares 396

6.4 Halftone cell and two squares tiled across device space 397 6.5

Tiling of device space in a type 16 halftone 399

6.6

Flatness tolerance 404

6.7

Rasterization without stroke adjustment 407

8.1

Presentation timing 487

8.2

Open annotation 489

8.3

Coordinate adjustment with the NoRotate flag 494

8.4

Square and circle annotations 505

8.5

QuadPoints

specification 506 8.6

FDF file structure 559

9.1

Simple Web Capture file structure 662

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