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About This Book
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Chapter 8, “Interactive Features,” describes those features of PDF that allow a
user to interact with a document on the screen by using the mouse and key-
board.
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Chapter 9, “Multimedia Features,” describes those features of PDF that support
embedding and playing multimedia content, including video, music and 3D
artwork.
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Chapter 10, “Document Interchange,” shows how PDF documents can incor-
porate higher-level information that is useful for the interchange of documents
among applications.
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Appendix A, “Operator Summary,” lists all the operators used in describing the
visual content of a PDF document.
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Appendix B, “Operators in Type 4 Functions,” summarizes the PostScript oper-
ators that can be used in PostScript calculator functions, which contain code
written in a small subset of the PostScript language.
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Appendix C, “Implementation Limits,” describes typical size and quantity
limits imposed by the Acrobat viewer applications.
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Appendix D, “Character Sets and Encodings,” lists the character sets and en-
codings that are assumed to be predefined in any PDF consumer application.
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Appendix E, “PDF Name Registry,” discusses a registry, maintained for devel-
opers by Adobe Systems, that contains private names and formats used by PDF
producers or Acrobat plug-in extensions.
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Appendix F, “Linearized PDF,” describes a special form of PDF file organiza-
tion designed to work efficiently in network environments.
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Appendix G, “Example PDF Files,” presents several examples showing the
structure of actual PDF files, ranging from one containing a minimal one-page
document to one showing how the structure of a PDF file evolves over the
course of several revisions.
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Appendix H, “Compatibility and Implementation Notes,” provides details on
the behavior of Acrobat viewer applications and describes how consumer appli-
cations should handle PDF files containing features that they do not recognize.
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Appendix I, “Computation of Object Digests,” describes in detail an algorithm
for calculating an object digest (discussed in Section 8.7, “Digital Signatures”).
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