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PDF File Format
| Short Name |
PDF |
| Long Name |
Portable Document Format |
| Typical File Extensions |
.pdf |
| Contains |
Page Description |
PDF is a document storage format developed by
Adobe.
In order to view PDF files on your computer, you will need the free Acrobat Reader software available from
Adobe.
PDF is very good at reproducing paper documents on screen, including
large multi-page documents, and is also excellent for printing them.
For this reason it tends to be favored for distributing or archiving
electronic versions of paper documents.
On the negative side however, some users (including me) find typical PDF
files a little awkward to read on screen as compared to web pages (see
for example,
PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption by Dr Jakob Nielsen).
For this reason, I would recommend that you use PDF
only when you need to electronically reproduce the appearance and
layout of paper documents (or for documents that you know will be printed),
but consider other formats
(such as HTML) when simply distributing/publishing information on the web.
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