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Computing portable document format: a format in which documents may be viewed

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(computer science) portable document format

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Portable Document Format

PDF

(Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for electronic document publishing from Adobe. Introduced in 1993, today, there are billions of brochures, data sheets, white papers, forms and technical manuals on the Web in the PDF format.

Render, Save As and Edit
Adobe's free Acrobat Reader and many other applications can display and print PDF files. Documents can also be saved (exported) to PDF in Windows, starting with Windows 10, and the Mac, as well as with many conversion programs that convert various formats to PDF. However, although PDFs can be easily generated, editing PDFs requires Adobe Acrobat or other software that specifically features PDF editing.

PDFs Provide Font Freedom
PDFs solved a chronic problem, in which the target computer may not have all the fonts specified in a document. For a graphic artist, font selection is an important part of page design, but, in the past, only basic fonts were chosen to ensure they were available in every user's computer.

In contrast, PDF files do not rely on the fonts installed in the user's computer. Document designers are free to choose whichever fonts they have at their disposal, and those fonts are embedded within the PDF document. Because the fonts are not distributed for general use, they do not violate copyrights and patents, and most importantly, the page will render the same on every computer. See PDF/X and font incompatibility.

PDF Is a Superset of Adobe PostScript
PDF is often the preferred file format for sending documents to commercial print houses. If the commercial printer uses PDF imagesetters, no conversion is necessary. If it uses only PostScript hardware, the PDF files are converted to PostScript first. See PostScript, PDF/A, PDF/X, WWF, DjVu and XML Paper Specification.

PDFs Are Size Efficient

Compare the sizes of this PDF file with its JPEG and Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx) equivalents. These are all the same single-page text documents saved to four formats. Whereas the PDF and Word formats are aware of the file's contents, the JPEG image is always a matrix of pixels (see JPEG and DOC file).

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Acronym	Definition
PDF➣Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat)
PDF➣Personal Data Form
PDF➣Personal Democracy Forum
PDF➣Probability Density Function
PDF➣Parkinson's Disease Foundation
PDF➣Probability Distribution Function
PDF➣Post-Doctoral Fellowship
PDF➣Pair Distribution Function
PDF➣Portable Data Format (common but incorrect)
PDF➣Portable Data File (common but incorrect)
PDF➣Professional Development Fund (various organizations)
PDF➣Professional Development Foundation (UK)
PDF➣Periodic Density Functional (theory)
PDF➣Planet Dog Foundation (Westbrook, ME)
PDF➣Pretrial Detention Facility (various locations)
PDF➣Positive Displacement Flowmeter
PDF➣Path Delay Fault (electronics)
PDF➣Percival David Foundation (London, UK)
PDF➣Portable Document Format
PDF➣Package Definition File
PDF➣Printer Description File
PDF➣Page Description Format
PDF➣Pop Directional Formatting
PDF➣Performance Data File
PDF➣Plasma Display Fan
PDF➣Packet Description File
PDF➣Printer Description File (File Name Extension)
PDF➣Parallel Depth First (computing)
PDF➣Powder Diffraction File
PDF➣Package Definition File (Microsoft Systems Management Server)
PDF➣Pretty Damn Funny
PDF➣Peritoneal Dialysis Fluid
PDF➣Pseudo Derivative Feedback
PDF➣People's Defence Forces
PDF➣Pretty Darn Fast
PDF➣Pakistan Development Forum (international consortium)
PDF➣Pop Directional Formatting (unicode)
PDF➣Power Delay Profile
PDF➣Policy Decision Function
PDF➣Pooled Development Fund
PDF➣Panamanian Defense Force
PDF➣Playa del Fuego (art festival)
PDF➣Permanent Defence Force (Irish Army)
PDF➣Please Don't Fart
PDF➣Positive Definite Function (mathematics)
PDF➣Printer Definition File
PDF➣Program Development Facility
PDF➣Polypeptide Deformylase
PDF➣Popular Defense Force
PDF➣Postscript Document Format (common but incorrect)
PDF➣Peoples' Democratic Front (Communist Party of India)
PDF➣Point Detonating Fuze
PDF➣Program Data File
PDF➣Personnel Deployment Function
PDF➣Power Distribution Frame
PDF➣Precision Direction Finding
PDF➣Paid Dues Festival (est. 2006)
PDF➣Processor Defined Function
PDF➣Pair Density Function
PDF➣Particle Distribution Function (physics)
PDF➣Proficiency Diploma in French (Nigeria)
PDF➣Petri Net Definition File (mathematical modeling)
PDF➣Planar Deformation Feature (geoscience)
PDF➣Pe Do File
PDF➣Programmable Data Format
PDF➣Parton Distribution Function
PDF➣Power Down Flag
PDF➣Program Data Form
PDF➣Planetary Defence Force (Warhammer 40,000)
PDF➣People's Development Foundation (India)
PDF➣Principal Direction of Fire
PDF➣Panguna Development Foundation (Papua New Guinea)
PDF➣Precision Direction Finder
PDF➣Postal Distribution Facility
PDF➣Path Diversity with Forward Error Correction
PDF➣I Profumi Di Firenze (Italian perfume)
PDF➣Pearl Drummers Forum (website)
PDF➣Pretty Damn Funky
PDF➣Premier Diesel Fuel (low sulfur diesel)
PDF➣Primary Direction of Fire
PDF➣Pittsburgh Dialogue Foundation
PDF➣Pulse Density Function
PDF➣Plant Design Factor
PDF➣Payload Data Formatter
PDF➣Publico Decreto Fecerunt (Latin: Made by Public Decree, epigraphy)
PDF➣Paradox Data File
PDF➣Procurement Data File
PDF➣Product Development & Fulfillment company
PDF➣Paranormal Dampening Field (remote viewing)
PDF➣Pepito Domination Force