Thursday 26 January 2012

PDF: What is PDF

PDF means Portable Document Format. It is a standard for document exchange. Adobe Systems is creator of this file format in 1993. Adobe cofounder John Warnock launched the paper-to-digital revolution with an idea he called The Camelot Project. Camelot’s goal was to give organizations the tools needed to "capture documents from any application, send electronic versions of these documents anywhere, and view and print these documents on any machines." PDF is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software,  hardware, and operating systems. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. Adobe Systems invented PDF technology to smooth the process of moving text and graphics from publishers to printing-presses. PDF documents can be opened on any popular platform like Linux, Windows, Mac  and the  look will always be identical. PDF documents have a .pdf file extension. Now a days it is extensively used in magazine articles, product brochures, or flyers in which to preserve the original graphic appearance online.

You need PDF reader to read PDF file. There are many pdf reader available. Suppose Adobe Reader, PDF Reader, Nitro PDF Reader etc. and to create a PDF file you must need PDF writer like Adobe Acrobat Writer, PDF writer etc.

Initial release: June 15, 1993
Standard     ISO 32000-1
 

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