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PDF - Portable Document Format

 

Format introduction:

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present 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.

Technical details:

The PDF combines three technologies: A subset of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics. A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents. A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate.

 

File extension	.pdf
MIME	application/pdf, application/x-pdf, application/x-bzpdf, application/x-gzpdf
Developed by	Adobe Systems
Type of format	Document format
Associated programs	Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, Foxit Reader, Ghostscript.
Sample file	sample.pdf
Wikipedia	PDF on Wikipedia