In spite of the abundance of PDF readers and editors available, perhaps you want to know the fundamentals of the PDF standard without reading thousands of pages. PDF Succinctly is your primer for understanding the components of PDFs, how text and graphics are added to them, and how the final PDF is compiled. This e-book also includes an introduction to iTextSharp, a C# library that provides an object-oriented wrapper for native PDF elements. With the basic information about the Portable Document Format contained in this book, it will be much easier for you to streamline the creation of PDF documents.

Are you looking for a new version control system? Perhaps what you're using now is too cumbersome, or you just want to try something new to manage a pet project. With Git Succinctly by Ryan Hodson, you can get up and running with one of the fastest-spreading revision control systems out there. Complete with vivid diagrams, clear code samples, and a careful walk-through of primary features, this free e-book is your quick guide to how Git operates, what its advantages are, and how you can incorporate it into your own workflow.

Learn the fundamentals of Delphi to build a variety of solutions for many devices and platforms. Author Marco Breveglieri will provide you with an overview of Delphi, its principles, its environment, and its use of Object Pascal language so that you can harness its versatility. With Delphi Succinctly, the power of Delphi is at your fingertips.

In Regular Expressions Succinctly, author Joe Booth teaches Visual Studio developers how regular expressions can help solve basic programming problems. By introducing patterns and rules to your C# strings, you can eliminate the need to write your own complex code for text manipulation. You'll learn to search for numbers, characters, symbols, and more, as well as enable your code to identify and reproduce patterns. Steps for creating and testing your own regular expressions are also included.

Accounting Succinctly by Joe Booth is a developer's guide to basic accounting. Written with business app development in mind, Booth discusses some of the most common accounting processes, including assets, multiple accounts, journaling, posting, inventory, and payroll. An appendix includes SQL code examples to get you started with several basic accounting transactions.

In Android Programming Succinctly, Ryan Hodson provides a useful overview of the Android application lifecycle. Topics ranging from creating a UI to adding widgets and embedding fragments are covered, and he provides plenty of links to Android documentation along the way. Each chapter is conveniently summarized to ensure you get the most out of reading the book, and summaries include helpful suggestions for expanding your abilities in this growing app market.

Linux is a Unix-like operating system that is one of the most popular open source operating systems on the planet. It is the heart of countless software products, from enterprise operating systems like Android and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to hobbyist projects on a wide range of devices. Linux Succinctly by Jason Cannon will teach you the basics of interacting with Linux, such as viewing and editing files and directories through the command line, and how to modify permissions. More advanced topics covered include I/O streams, sorting and comparing files and directories, and installing additional software.

JavaScript Succinctly was written to give readers an accurate, concise examination of JavaScript objects and their supporting nuances, such as complex values, primitive values, scope, inheritance, the head object, and more. If you're an intermediate JavaScript developer and want to solidify your understanding of the language, or if you've only used JavaScript beneath the mantle of libraries such as jQuery or Prototype, this is the book for you.

C# is a general purpose, object-oriented, component-based programming language. As a general purpose language, there are a number of ways to apply C# to accomplish many different tasks. You can build web applications with ASP.NET, desktop applications with Windows Presentation Foundation, or build mobile applications for Windows Phone. Other applications include code that runs in the cloud via Windows Azure, and iOS, Android, and Windows Phone support with the Xamarin platform. With C# Succinctly by Joe Mayo, you will quickly learn the syntax you need to build your own C# applications.

Syncfusion and functional programming enthusiast Robert Pickering bring you F# Succinctly, your quick-start guide to the F# programming language. Starting with the classic "Hello World" program and the basics of identifiers, recursion, and operators, and working through to graphics, simulations, and interactive forms, this book is the ideal first step to becoming a fluent F# programmer. F#'s integration with Visual Studio-featuring IntelliSense expression completion and an interactive version of the language for dynamic code evaluation-makes it the go-to functional language of the .NET platform.