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Notes on PDFs, privacy, and standards.

How the tools work, why your files never leave the browser, and the technical detail that matters.

Files.co PDF Suite 1.5.0: ten more tools and signing with your own certificate

Version 1.5.0 is approved on both the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store. The app goes from 16 tools to 26, all free, and adds signing with the certificate already installed on your machine.

Antonia González · Aug 12, 2026 · 8 min read

STANDARDS

A PDF has no page size until someone draws one

Aug 13, 2026 GUIDES

What counts as an annotation in a PDF (and why some of them look like content)

Aug 12, 2026

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A quick checklist before you send a PDF

Before that PDF leaves your hands, thirty seconds of checks saves real embarrassment. Size, fonts, hidden data, security. Here's the list, and how to fix each one in your browser.

Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read Standards

Why you can't work out a PDF's size by adding up its pages

Half the pages doesn't mean half the megabytes. PDFs share fonts and images across pages, so the only honest size is the one you get after saving the file.

Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read Guides

How to Merge and Reorder Scanned Pages into One Clean PDF

Your scanner spits out separate files in whatever order the pages fed through. Here's how to merge them and put every page back in the right sequence.

Aug 11, 2026 · 6 min read

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