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PDF is an acronym for Portable Document Format. Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is a nearly-universal standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Adobe PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with free Adobe Acrobat® Reader® software or with a browser that has a PDF viewer. Most modern web browsers have a PDF viewer that launches automatically when a PDF needs to be rendered.
Benefits
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of Using PDF Files
- PDF files are platform independent, meaning they are readable and printable from a wide variety of devices and software applications.
- They offer compression features.
- They offer some control over how a document is used—for example, you can create a document that cannot be printed or that is password protected.
- They are accessible through a wide variety of software, and many programs offer the option to export/convert content into PDF format.
- They are simple to create, even if the program does not offer an Export to PDF feature. Any printable document within a program can generally be made into a PDF document.
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