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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 PDF's

MS Word, convert to PDF

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}

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

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

Shout out to DuckDuckGo search engine for bursting my filter bubble

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 * Created by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems Adobe Systems] in 1993
 * Submitted to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization ISO] as a standard in 2008 --[http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51502 ISO 32000-1]
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