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PDF - Portable Document Format
Acronym for Portable Document Format, the PDF file format created by Adobe Systems, Inc. uses the PostScript printer description language and is highly portable across computer platforms. PDF documents are created with Adobe Acrobat or other programs and can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader and other PDF reader programs.
PDF files have become increasingly important as an output option for desktop publishing and word processing files. Some of the benefits of the PDF format are:
• Cross-platform use
• Preservation of layout and fonts for file sharing
• Document security (customized settings depending on the PDF creation software)
PDF files have become increasingly important as an output option for desktop publishing and word processing files. Some of the benefits of the PDF format are:
• Cross-platform use
• Preservation of layout and fonts for file sharing
• Document security (customized settings depending on the PDF creation software)
How to Get Text and Image Content Out of a PDF
Perhaps one of the most requested PDF-related tasks after 'how to create a PDF' is 'how to get text or images out of a PDF file' when you don't have Adobe Acrobat. Depending on your needs, there are several ways to do this including copy and paste, opening the PDF in a graphics program, and using third-party extraction and conversion tools.
Should I Subset Fonts When Making a PDF?
You might have seen the option to subset fonts when making PDFs either through your layout program or when making the PDF through Acrobat Distiller. So, perhaps you are wondering what does that option do, and will it affect the way my PDFs look on screen?