Why pay for Adobe Acrobat or risk your data with online editors when excellent open-source PDF tools offer powerful, private alternatives? These PDF editors give you complete control over your ...

Many businesses use the PDF format to create uneditable versions of documents such as e-books and product manuals. If you want to turn a PDF file into an editable PPT file for Microsoft PowerPoint, ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Google taken its PDFium software library forward into open source project status. PDFium is an open-source PDF ...

Free software replaced my paid tools—and I barely miss the subscriptions.

The new open-source tool BentoPDF appears in version 1.0 with extensive PDF functions, Docker integration, and a focus on local data processing. With BentoPDF 1.0.0, a new open-source tool for PDF ...

The PDF software Stirling PDF has been released in version 2.0. The open-source tool will now offer desktop apps, text editing – and a new licensing model. The developers of Stirling PDF have released ...

The PDF (portable document format) standard was created in the 1990s by Adobe cofounder John Warnock to make it possible for people to share reliably formatted documents across a wide range of ...

Good software is the basis of all PC use, but many professional programs are too expensive for private use. This is where the free software-based applications step in, which, including their source ...

From Duane Nickull comes word that Adobe is making PDF an open standard, submitting it to the ISO. This doesn't make Acrobat open source. Proprietary standards are offered to standards bodies all the ...