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* [http://www.dickinson.edu/download/downloads/id/2534/word_combine_files_pdf With Microsoft Word]  
 
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Revision as of 10:11, 14 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.

PDF Trivia

PDF, the software world


PDF, the basics

Exercise I

Creating PDF's

MS Word, convert to PDF

  • Look at options

Exercise II

editing an existing PDF

Exercise III

Merging multiple documents



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


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)





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