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We’re Joining the PSPDFKit Team!

May 17, 2022

It’s finally official! ORPALIS is now part of the PSPDFKit team. We’re proud to join forces with the Austrian-American company, and we’re excited to present an extended offer of components and solutions to our customers. You may have noticed the announcement on all our websites, we’re adding a new step to our journey! Focusing on […]

Using PDF Layers or Optional Content Groups (OCG) in GdPicture.NET

April 22, 2020

Communicating ideas in digital documents can often be made much clearer through the use of layers. Layers have been supported in PDF documents since version 1.5 through optional content groups (OCGs), also known as PDF layers. “Optional” is key here. OCGs allow us to group images or annotations together, then control their visibility based on […]

2019 Retrospective: A Year in Electronic Document Management

February 13, 2020

As we’re (already) reaching the end of February 2020 (and I’m still not writing faster), it is more than time to release our 2019 retrospective. A lot of things happened the past year, so it’s time to update your ORPALIS product to the latest version, if you haven’t done it in a while! What happened […]

Methods with losses: resizing, color detection, and other techniques.

December 22, 2019

Previously in the PDf Optimization In-depth Series. Resizing images Resizing images can provide significant gains in occupancy. For example, decreasing unnecessary high resolutions can dramatically reduce the file size without affecting the viewing experience. But sometimes it is also a pretty destructive approach. There exist many sophisticated resizing algorithms, but it is rare to obtain […]

Methods with Losses: Mixed Raster Content (MRC) Compression

December 11, 2019

Previously in our PDF Optimization In-depth Series: MRC compression in PDF documents is highly efficient in file size reduction without visible degradation of document rendering. MRC, also known as hyper-compression, is an image compression benefiting from image segmentation methods. It is particularly useful for images containing text and continuous-tone graphics. This method reduces the size […]

Methods with Losses: JPEG2000 and JBIG2

November 22, 2019

Previously published in the PDf Optimization In-depth Series: Sometimes, when acceptable or necessary, it may be interesting to recompress images already included in an existing PDF file to reduce the file size. The PDF specification allows for seven compression schemes for such purposes. All of them can be used to compress images. Among these different […]

Use Safer Signing Process with GdPicture.NET

October 22, 2017

Hi everyone, As most of you know, GdPicture.NET 14 toolkit offers, among numerous PDF features, the possibility to digitally sign or certify your PDF documents using digital IDs as well as the ability to decrypt shared PDF documents using digital certificates. Now we would like to introduce you to the new improved and enriched set […]