About
Acrobat & PDF - Basics
What does PDF stand for?
PDF stands for Portable
Document Format.
What
is PDF?
PDF is a unique type of cross platform file format developed
by Adobe.
Why
should PDF be important to me?
PDF is Cross Platform, Navigational, Ultra-Printable,
Ultra-Viewable, and Smaller than other conventional document
formats.
Cross Platform: a
cross-platform file format that represents documents
independent of the software, hardware, and the operating
system used to create the file. In simple words, you can
read a PDF document in Windows 98 that was created on a
Macintosh that you downloaded from a Web site running
UNIX.
Navigational:
objects built into the PDF file format allow users and
creators to expand the usefulness of a publication. Such
items include: Internal and external links, bookmarks,
thumbnails of each page, article threads, form fields,
buttons for navigation, notes to annotate information,
views to allow a user to magnify or reduce a page to fit
within the user's computer screen.
Ultra-Printable: PDF
files are based on the PostScript language imaging model.
This enables sharp, color-precise printing on almost all
printers.
Ultra-Viewable: On
screen PDF files have a precise color match regardless of
the monitor used. PDF files allow the user to magnify
documents up to 800% without the loss of clarity in
text or graphics.
Smaller: PDF files
can be optimized to reduce their file sizes. PDF files for
example can be 1/5 of the size of their HTML counterpart.
What
strengths do PDF files have on the internet?
PDF files have many of the same characteristics as HTML
documents.
PDF files can be viewed
within Netscape and Internet Explorer windows. These files
can then be saved for off-line use or printed.
PDF files can be byte
served over the web to faster access larger amount of
information. This process is similar to the process of
streaming of video files so you don't have to download the
full file before you can use/view it. After grabbing the
first part of data, page-on-demand continues to download
the rest of the file. What this means is that a user could
after reading the first page jump immediately to the
seventh page without having to wait! It's be like
visiting a website's home page and your browser would
store the rest of the entire site so you could jump to the
products page without having to wait for it to load.
A combination of HTML and
PDF format enables the publisher to serve content to their
users in its most useful format based on the demands of
content versus technology.
PDF files need no
translation, compression, or filtering on most popular
webservers.
Full-text search
capabilities are available for PDF files.
PDF takes document security
to the next level. Creators of PDF files can prevent the
copying of text, graphics, making changes, and printing a
document.
Developers can create their
own software to read, create, or modify PDF files without
special permission or licensing.
Documents created in
generally any program that can print, can create a
PDF document.
PDF files seal the gap that
many developers find when they become frustrated
creating content for the web. "I want it to look just
like this! Why can't it look just like as if I make it in
Word, Pagemaker, or (add program name here)? I know how to
do it there!" All this without being a HTML, Java,
CGI guru.
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