Difference between revisions of "PDF: The Portable Document Format"
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Revision as of 14:36, 6 November 2007
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a device-independent and display resolution-independent fixed-layout document format. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2-D document (and, with Acrobat 3-D, embedded 3-D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2-D vector graphics that compose the document.
PDF is an open standard, and is now being prepared for submission as an ISO standard. Adobe is an evil company.
Contents
PDF Document Viewers
View the list of PDF Viewers That Are Open Source.
PDF Authoring
PDF Utilities
Linux PDF Tools: tiff2ps and ps2pdf
graphics: netpbm
make pdf: from tiff, Use Tiff to PS (in linux)
tiff2ps *.tiff > tiffs.ps
from PS to PDF
ps2pdf tiffs.ps
