Impromptu Lightning Talk Timeslot

2-3 min LTs

In this technical talk, I'll give a brief introduction to colour management, how it works and why it's important, and then describe what we've been doing in the Ghostscript project to improve our support for ICC profiles.

Tired of generation tired looking PDFs from your website? Using Inkscape, XSLT and a bit of code twiddling you can generate fantastic looking PDFs with dynamic content.

Peter will show you how he uses the Inkscape and pdftk tooks - in combination with PHP/MySQL based websites - to generate pretty PDFs for end users.

This presentation will take a look at the history of PDF from proprietary specification of Adobe Systems to its current form as the open standard ISO 32000. The process that it went through and how this change impacts the free software community. In addition we will look at the various other ISO PDF standards - PDF/A (for archiving), PDF/X (for prepress), PDF/E (for engineering), PDF/UA (for universal accessibility) and PDF/VT (for variable and transactional printing).

The presentation will focus on both technical as well as procedural aspects of the various PDF standards.