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Most people still view an invoice as a document: a PDF file that they can open, read, print, and archive. For accounting software, however, a PDF is generally just a visual representation of data. The system…
PL/PDF OffX v5.31 is now available. This release expands Oracle-native document generation with three major capabilities: native PAdES digital signatures, Tagged PDF support, and AES-256 PDF encryption. PL/PDF OffX combines the complete PL/PDF SDK with the…
PL/PDF v5.31 can now generate Tagged PDF documents directly from Oracle PL/SQL. But what is a Tagged PDF? A normal PDF describes where text, images and graphics appear on a page. A Tagged PDF also describes…
PL/PDF v5.31 introduces native PAdES B-B and PAdES B-T digital signature support directly from Oracle PL/SQL. PAdES — PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures — is the ETSI standard family for advanced electronic signatures embedded in PDF documents.…
PL/PDF v5 now supports AES-256 encryption for PDF documents generated directly inside Oracle Database. Why is this important? Oracle permissions protect data while it is inside the database. But once a PDF is downloaded, emailed or…
We have reached an important milestone in PL/PDF: native PDF digital signing in Oracle PL/SQL. The new PLPDF_DIGSIG implementation creates a detached CMS/PKCS#7 signature using SHA-256 and RSA entirely inside Oracle Database—without a Java stored procedure…