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Revision as of 07:10, 12 October 2015
Contents
PDF, the portable document format
- Everything you ever wanted to know about PDF.
- created to get away from all the dependencies of different operating systems and word processing applications.
- Takeaway: There are many versions of the PDF format; not all PDF documents will behave the same.
- created to get away from all the dependencies of different operating systems and word processing applications.
PDF Trivia
- Created by Adobe Systems in 1993
- Submitted to ISO as a standard in 2008 --ISO 32000-1
PDF, the software world
PDF, the basics
Exercise I
Creating PDF's
Exercise II
editing an existing PDF
Viewing
Desktop Applications
- View in a browser {Chrome, Firefox}, have native ability to read PDF, the simplest, but not the most reliable, nor the fastest.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader now deceased? Now it's Adobe Acrobat DC
- For Windows, SumatraPDF is the best <-- That's a matter of quantitative fact
- For Macintosh, I have no idea
- For GNU/Linux, Evince
Mobile Applications
- Android: Document Viewer, on F-Droid Repo, on Google Play
- Android: Google PDF viewer
- Android: Adobe Acrobat Reader on Google Play
- IOS: ?
Export as
Most applications have an ability to export as a PDF document:
- MS Excel
- MS Word
- MS PowerPoint
- Libre Office Writer
- Libre Office Calc
- Libre Office Presentation
- Google Sheets
- Google Doc
- Google Slides
Edit (Import)
as text
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Microsoft Word
- Libre Office Writer
as graphic
- Inkscape
- Libre Office Draw
- GIMP
- Adobe Photoshop
Merging
- Adobe Acrobat Professional
- PDFSaM (Split and Merge)
