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Revision as of 13:35, 15 October 2015
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 basics
Exercise I
Creating PDFs
- Look at options
Exercise II
editing an existing PDF
- see list of software one can use for this below
- example using Word
(add path here)
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}
- INSERT --> Object --> Text from file
Exercise IV
Working with document files in WordPress
Exercise V
WordPress: Navigation, Menus and Widgets
PDF software
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: Books
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
- Adobe Acrobat Professional
- Microsoft Word
- Libre Office Writer
- PDFSaM (Split and Merge)
Shout out to DuckDuckGo search engine for bursting my filter bubble
