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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).
+PDF is an open standard.
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You can
generate PDFs using Adobe's commercial AdobeAcrobat and view them with AcrobatReader ([free] but not [Free])
. You can use [LaTeX] (pdflatex(1) or LaTeXpdf are good places to look) to make good quality PDF files. xpdf(1) and GhostView are [Free] programs that you can use to view
PDF files if you don't want to use Adobe
's closed-source reader
.
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PostScript files can be easily turned into PDF with the ps2pdf(1) command (which is a wrapper around GhostScript).
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+[Apple]'s [MacOSX] uses PDF for rendering images (and the user interface), which is why you can have true transparent windows on their [OS].
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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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