Don Lancaster, a long-time icon of the "midnight engineering" school of wild-eyed inventors, has an excellent website with all kinds of information about PDF and PostScript. This is deeply geeky, and he spends a lot of time tinkering under the hood -- something that most law firms aren't going to do. He makes PDFs do a lot of amazing things by manipulating the underlying PostScript.
If you want (or you want your technical staff) to understand what's really going on with PDF so that you can set up an effective workflow, there are excellent resources here. A deeper understanding of how to do (and automate) some important tasks (like tracking and checking the URL links in a PDF file) could save a ton of time, effort, and money. He also freely distributes the tools (i.e., some utility programs) for doing a lot of these things cheaply, quickly and very effectively.
The materials go all the way back to the very early days of PDF, so if you are working with older versions, you might find some gems of wisdom here.
Also, if you are interested in all things eBay, he has the most amazing methods for prepping images for the web, generating thumbnails etc.
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