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  2. PDF - Wikipedia

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    Interactive Forms is a mechanism to add forms to the PDF file format. PDF currently supports two different methods for integrating data and PDF forms. Both formats today coexist in the PDF specification: [38] [53] [54] [55] AcroForms (also known as Acrobat forms), introduced in the PDF 1.2 format specification and included in all later PDF ...

  3. PDF (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    PDF (gene), a gene that in humans encodes the enzyme peptide deformylase; Palladium fluoride (PdF), a series of chemical compounds; Parton distribution function, in particle physics; Peak draw force, in a compound bow in archery; Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art; Pigment dispersing factor, in biology; Planar deformation features, in geology

  4. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008.

  5. PDF/A - Wikipedia

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    PDF is a standard for encoding documents in an "as printed" form that is portable between systems. However, the suitability of a PDF file for archival preservation depends on options chosen when the PDF is created: most notably, whether to embed the necessary fonts for rendering the document; whether to use encryption; and whether to preserve additional information from the original document ...

  6. Document file format - Wikipedia

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    HTML is the most used and open international standard and it is also used as document file format. It has also become ISO / IEC standard (ISO 15445:2000). The default binary file format used by Microsoft Word ( .doc ) has become widespread de facto standard for office documents, but it is a proprietary format and is not always fully supported ...

  7. Machine-readable medium and data - Wikipedia

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    Machine-readable data must be structured data. [1]Attempts to create machine-readable data occurred as early as the 1960s. At the same time that seminal developments in machine-reading and natural-language processing were releasing (like Weizenbaum's ELIZA), people were anticipating the success of machine-readable functionality and attempting to create machine-readable documents.

  8. Machine-readable document - Wikipedia

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    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 the presentation of the document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it.

  9. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    zip – a file format, also used as a verb to mean compress. The file format was created by Phil Katz, and given the name by his friend Robert Mahoney. The compression tool Phil Katz created was named PKZIP. Zip means "speed", and they wanted to imply their product would be faster than ARC and other compression formats of the time.