Portable Document Format

You already know the format of the document with the extension .pdf. Exactly, PDF (Portable Document Format) that is the common document format this time we met. Because the nature of the “multi-platform”, so the format of this document can run in almost all Operating System (Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc.). Because of the high level of adaptation of this format, many people use this format to exchange documents on the Internet world.

Unlike first the PDF format was created by Adobe Systems in 1993, when the software to display and create PDF documents should be had a commercial licensed. Now, we have found many tools that call virtual PDF printer (like doPDF, BullZip PDF Printer, PrimoPDF, CutePDF Writer, etc.) who labeled freeware for us to convert documents in PDF format. Office applications such as openoffice.org is even provide himself with the ‘Export as PDF’,

whereas Microsoft Office 2007 adds functions ‘Save As PDF’ as the Add-in that can be downloaded for free (if you have a legal license of Microsoft Office 2007).

Thus, like a current PDF document format is the most compatible format to be used as a document-sharing opportunity because of the expense, as well as a paperless campaign.