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PDF is an [Acronym] for __P__ortable __D__ocument __F__ormat. Invented by [Adobe].
-You generate PDFs using Adobe's commercial AdobeAcrobat and view them with AcrobatReader. You can use [LaTeX] (pdflatex(1) or LaTeXpdf are good places to look) to make good quality PDF files. PDF's are very tied in with PostScript files.
PostScript files can be easily turned into PDF with the ps2pdf(1) command (which is a wrapper around GhostScript).
+You generate PDFs using Adobe's commercial AdobeAcrobat and view them with AcrobatReader. You can use [LaTeX] (pdflatex(1) or LaTeXpdf are good places to look) to make good quality PDF files. PostScript files can be easily turned into PDF with the ps2pdf(1) command (which is a wrapper around GhostScript).
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+PDF is arguably a version of PostScript and is certainly a decendant of it in some ways. Calling PDF something other than PostScript II was probably actually a very good idea, since there are already enough different forms of PostScript around
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