Monday, November 19, 2007

About this blog

Many people believe that Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) in its proprietary format is used for unchangeable content delivery where readers can print or display information on the screen conveniently. That may be the way of thinking for most of people who work with it, yet there are many thing that can be done with Adobe's pdf.

PDF started its release in the early 90. At that time, Adobe provided free Adobe Acrobat Reader, PDF, across the Web as an alternative to paginated HTML. PDF has taken the place Adobe PostScript language files as an exchange format.

Acrobat PDF format has become a standard for digital information. Adobe publishes its specifications, to allow developers create their own tools for creating and utilizing PDF. For example Ghostscript software, a software toolkit for work with PostScript and PDF files. OpenOffice.org allows users to create PDF files from its applications, and Apple has integrated PDF closely with Mac OS X, including its own PDF reader and tools for printing PDF from any application.

Many people treat PDF documents as finished products, it is enough to read or print, but you can create and edit PDF many ways to improve your productivity. Adobe Acrobat product family, beyond the Acrobat Reader, includes a variety of tools for creating and editing PDF files, but there are many other tools and products for working with PDF, many are explored in this blog.

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