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History of PDF. 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. Since then, it has been under the control of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 October 2024. Portable Document Format, a digital file format For other uses, see PDF (disambiguation). Portable Document Format Adobe PDF icon Filename extension.pdf Internet media type application/pdf, application/x-pdf application/x-bzpdf application/x-gzpdf Type code PDF (including a single ...
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 ...
Acrobat Reader is the freeware version of Acrobat developed by Adobe to view, create, fill, print and format files in a PDF. It is currently available for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Acrobat Standard is the standard full version of Acrobat developed by Adobe to edit, create, manipulate, print and manage files in a PDF.
Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF (Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. [3] Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size. [4]
PDF24 Creator is an application software by Geek Software GmbH for the creation of PDF files from any application and for converting files to the PDF format. The application is released under a proprietary freeware license. The software has been developed in Germany since 2006, originally under the name PDFDrucker, [1] and is actively developed.
PDF Tools allows creation of PDFs from many types of source input (images, scans, etc.). The PDF-XChange print driver allows printing directly to a PDF. A "lite" version of the print driver is free for non-commercial (home and academic) use. PrimoPDF: Proprietary: Yes: Virtual printer, for Microsoft .NET Framework and uses Ghostscript and RedMon.
Smallpdf.com. Smallpdf is a Swiss online web-based PDF software, founded in 2013. [2] It offers free services to compress, convert and edit PDF documents.