What’s a PDF and Why Do I Need One?
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Recently, as I wrote in my weekly email newsletter (sign up in the link in this web page’s header or the link in he footer), one of my subscribers wanted to know about a free program to let him fill in PDF forms.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe to be a cross-platformm document display tool. Whether the user is using Windows, Mac, Linux or some other operating system, if they are using Adobe Reader to read a PDF file, the displayed document will look the same. I wish we could say that about word processors, spreadsheets and presentation software…
Adobe had the sole control of the PDF world for a long time, with their free Adobe Reader program (originally called Adobe Acrobat Reader) and their flagship product Adobe Acrobat, which created the PDF files.
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