PDF Files

What is a PDF file?

The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is the unique cross-platform PostScript-based file format developed by Adobe. A PDF file can describe documents containing any combination of text, graphics, and images in a device and resolution independent format. These documents can be one page or thousands of pages, very simple or extremely complex, and make rich use of fonts, graphics, color, and images. The format encompasses not only the visual appearance of a document, but additional information only possible with an electronic representation.

What benefits do PDF documents offer to the Internet?

PDF documents offer significant benefits to the Internet community by offering design control, print-ready documents, and an endless array of authoring applications. Because PDF files are extremely compact, platform independent, visually rich - and can be created from virtually any authoring application - they are a perfect vehicle for sharing information among the diverse computing environments that make up the net.

What do I need to do to serve PDF files a page-at-a-time?
What do I need to take advantage of the Acrobat 3.0 Beta Reader?

There are four pieces to the Acrobat-on-the-Internet picture:

What platforms does Adobe Acrobat 3.0 Beta software currently support?

Acrobat 3.0 Beta is currently available for Macintosh, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, and OS/2.

What about accessibility?

PDF and Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Viewers for the Visually Disabled
This document describes Adobe's plans for making both the Adobe Acrobat viewing products and the PDF file format accessible for individuals with visual disabilities. It provides information on accessibility problems with this format.

What do I need to read PDF files?

Show me some examples.

Learn how a variety of business and organizations are putting the power of Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) and PDF to work.

Examples

 

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Last updated on June 15, 1997.