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About the Portable Document Format - Adobe Acrobat Tutorial
From the course: Acrobat Pro Essential Training
About the Portable Document Format
- [Instructor] So let's establish right away that PDF stands for Portable Document Format. The PDF format has been around since 1993 and was originally created as a format for distributing and displaying documents so they actually looked like what the document creator intended. And this was accomplished in part by allowing the original fonts and graphics to be embedded in the document, which allowed for viewing and printing. Before the PDF format, you could never be sure what fonts were installed on someone else's computer, and technically you still can't. So if you sent say a Microsoft Word document to someone, if they didn't have the same fonts you used, the document could look drastically different. And these days with the free Adobe Reader software, you can view PDFs on your Macs, Windows machines, as well as Android and iOS mobile devices. The PDF format became an open standard in 2008, meaning any software developer…
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