Microsoft Word has recently upped its PDF game, allowing lightweight users the ability to edit and fill PDFs.īut Adobe, which created the PDF in the 1990s and granted all royalty-free rights to the format in 2008, currently boasts some of the most widely used programs: Reader, which is free, Acrobat Standard, which is entry-level, and Acrobat Pro, which is Adobe’s most comprehensive PDF software. Hundreds of different PDF readers and editors exist, all with different levels of user-friendly experience. And anyone on any device can view a PDF, a wonder of cross-platform ability.īut that simplified nature doesn’t mean that working with PDFs is easy. The basic structure of a PDF file represents one of the great victories for open-source software - because the PDF is not proprietary to any particular company, anyone can develop, use, sell, and distribute PDF software.
And the highly compressed nature of PDF files means they are easy to email, download, and print.
No matter how many different fonts, images, and other document components a PDF contains, they all display together. No matter what kind of desktop, laptop, mobile device, or operating system you use, the PDF works. The PDF, or portable document format, is one of today’s most ubiquitous file formats.
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