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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.

PDF Trivia

Created by Adobe Systems in 1993
Submitted to ISO as a standard in 2008 --ISO 32000-1

PDF, the basics

Exercise I

Creating PDFs

MS Word, convert to PDF

Look at options

Exercise II

Editing an existing PDF

For a list of software one can use for this, please see below
Example: using Word (2013 and 2016) to edit a PDF: go to File > Open > Find the PDF and click Open

Exercise III

Merging multiple documents

With Adobe Acrobat Professional
- Combine Files --> Add Files --> Preview --> Arrange Pages / Delete Pages --> Combine files
With Microsoft Word
- INSERT --> Object --> Text from file
  - Can be any text file format {pdf, docx, otd, txt}

Exercise IV

Working with document files in WordPress

Attach a file to a WordPress post or page

Exercise V

WordPress: Navigation, Menus and Widgets

MIT - WordPress Professional Portfolio

PDF software

List of PDF Software on Wikipedia

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: Preview
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: iBooks

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

as graphic

Merging

Shout out to DuckDuckGo search engine for bursting my filter bubble

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 * Adobe Acrobat Reader now deceased? Now it's [https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/work-anywhere.html Adobe Acrobat DC]
 * For Windows, [http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html SumatraPDF] is the best <-- That's a matter of quantitative fact
-* For Macintosh, I have no idea
+* For Macintosh: [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201740 Preview]
 * For GNU/Linux, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince]