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PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It is a universal file format that stores images fonts and layout of a document created in other applications such as Microsoft Word.
A PDF is the standard and secure exchange of Electronic documents and forms throughout the world. Adobe PDF files are so compact and complete that they can be shared viewed and printed with minimal effort. So unique is a PDF, that you can convert any document to an Adobe PDF using the software installed onto your Personal Computer or Laptop.
Adobe Systems was founded by Charles Geschke and Warnock in 1982 and was a company that would further revolutionize print technology and would also become instrumental in changing the landscape of electronic publishing.
It is said that if PDF did not exist, someone would have to invent it! With a name like PDF, Portable Document Format, the key word is indeed portable. To be portable as the PDF name suggests, an electronically document would have to appear the same on any computer at any given time, at no added cost to the user, and create the same results whether on screen or as a print version. PDF does exactly this.
In today’s electronic based way of life, you can use spreadsheets; word processing and presentation files with great ease, but you cannot use these formats to post to websites or even email? With a PDF you can achieve this.
The main difference between a PDF and lets say (Word, Excel, Power Point, Quark, HTML, etc) is that a PDF when made properly is not subject to editing or change.
So, with the invention of Adobe Systems in the early 1990’s, an authentic digital hardcopy that conveys ownership was created for mainstream use in today’s electronic environment.