2007-01-30 01:52:09 · 6 answers · asked by jhangra2002 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
PDF stands for Portable Document Format, and is an open file format created and controlled by Adobe Systems. You have to have Adobe Reader, a free part of Adobe Acrobat, to read PDF files, or you have to have one of the free readers like Foxit Reader. You cannot change or edit the documents, you can only read and print them.
2007-01-30 01:59:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
PDF files stand for Portable Document Format.
It was created by a company called Adobe and its a format that can be read by a Free Adobe Acrobat Reader. The following link is to download the latest version of Acrobat Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Quite a long time ago people used different pieces of software to create documents. It was fairly difficult to hand a document created on PC and then viewed on Apple computer and more importantly even if it was converted it never retained the same look and feel of the document. Thus Adobe created Adobe Acrobat which created PDF files that were read on Linux, PC, Apple etc w/o specialized software and you get to see the document as it was originally intended to be displayed.
The Adobe Acrobat Reader does not create PDFs it simply reads and displays the document. However, there are software in the market some free and some not free that can create PDFs. Adobe sells one called Acrobat which is the most sophisticated PDF maker in the market.
2007-01-30 10:09:18 · answer #2 · answered by CB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a format of a document file created from adobe first for Apple computers.
You have to download and install the Adobe writter or reader to have access to read or write a pdf file.
You can't run a pdf file...
Some pdf files can have password to access them even for reading...
2007-01-30 10:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by Nikos M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May I add to Lucee:
After you download a small, free-to-all program called Adobe Reader, you can download and read only PDF files. However, you can not only print them, you can save them to disk. After that, if you purchase PDF Converter, you can convert it to a Word document.
trial version of PDF Converter available at:
www.docsmartz.com
2007-01-30 12:20:13 · answer #4 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a document format than can store text, images ..etc. It can be even interactive meaning , you clik on something and some action happens. To read it you need free Acrobat Reader (best), Foxit etc.
To edit it Acrobata Distiller, Foxit etc.
2007-01-30 10:56:50 · answer #5 · answered by blazkiar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is ran by adobe acrobat
2007-01-30 09:55:41 · answer #6 · answered by yakkyigooconroy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋