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* Everything you ever wanted to know about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format PDF]. | * Everything you ever wanted to know about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format PDF]. | ||
** created to get away from all the dependencies of different operating systems and word processing applications. | ** 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 Trivia === | ||
Revision as of 12:09, 5 October 2015
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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.
- 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
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 <-- whatever! Document Viewer rules because it uses document rendering engine from GNU/Linux = super fast
- Android: Adobe Acrobat Reader on Google Play
- IOS: ?
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