Everything on this site carries one of our names, and every claim is something we checked rather than something we read elsewhere.
The Document Desk is the small editorial team that writes and maintains the guides on this site. Between us we have spent about fifteen years working on document pipelines, print production and student-facing software, and we have opened a genuinely unreasonable number of broken PDFs. Every guide is written against files we tested ourselves, using the tools on this site, and re-checked whenever the underlying behaviour changes.
At a glance
- Role
- Editorial team, ExamPDFView
- Writes about
- PDF internals, document conversion, print production, accessible documents
- Working in this field since
- 2019
- Guides on this site
- 6
Guides by The Document Desk
Splitting a past paper from its mark scheme
A combined download puts the answers one scroll from the questions. Finding the boundary and cutting there takes two minutes and changes what the paper is for.
Organising a folder of past papers
Sixty files called 9709_s23_qp_12.pdf is not a resource, it is a search problem. Ten minutes of naming turns it into something you can work from all year.
What exam paper filenames mean
9709_s23_qp_12.pdf is not gibberish. Every segment carries information, and ten minutes learning the pattern stops you opening the wrong document for the rest of your course.
Revision that works offline
Every session that depends on a network is a session a network can end. The fix takes twenty minutes once and removes an entire category of lost evening.
Choosing a PDF reader
For most documents, the one already on your device. The question is normally asked because a particular file is misbehaving, and the file is usually the problem.
Is it safe to use an online PDF tool?
It depends entirely on the document, and the honest answer costs us traffic to give. For some files the answer is no, including on this site.