Definitions for Portable Document Format
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1. portable document format

   Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, vector graphics, raster images and other information needed to display it. PDF has its roots in "The Camelot Project" initiated by Adobe co-founder John Warnock in 1991.PDF was standardized as ISO 32000 in 2008. The last edition as ISO 32000-2:2020 was published in December 2020. PDF files may contain a variety of content besides flat text and graphics including logical structuring elements, interactive elements such as annotations and form-fields, layers, rich media (including video content), three-dimensional objects using U3D or PRC, and various other data formats. The PDF specification also provides for encryption and digital signatures, file attachments, and metadata to enable workflows requiring these features.

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1. Portable Document Format

   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. - From the Wikipedia entry for PDF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

How to pronounce Portable Document Format?

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How to say Portable Document Format in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Portable Document Format in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Portable Document Format in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Portable Document Format in a Sentence

1. Noah Carr:

   Armorblox focuses on two things — find someone who may have stolen someone's credentials, maybe using your email to communicate internally and stop it before he's able to do something, it can analyze documents as well. So if there is sensitive information in a document sent in a PDF (portable document format) outside your organization, it can flag a bunch of that information, or stop it from happening. It actually stops that exfiltration of data.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Portable Document Format