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The PDF format was specified by [Adobe], the same company that helped introduced PostScript and Type1 fonts.
You can view PDF documents with AcrobatReader ([free] but not [Free]).
-xpdf(1) and GhostView are [Free] programs that you can use to view PDF files if you don't want to use Adobe's proprietary closed-source reader. [KDE] has kghostview and [GNOME] has gnome-gv, both of which are front-ends to GhostView/ghostscript.
+xpdf(1) and GhostView are [Free] programs that you can use to view PDF files if you don't want to use Adobe's proprietary closed-source reader. [KDE] has kghostview and [GNOME] has gnome-gv, both of which are front-ends to GhostView/ghostscript. GNOME also has the newer gpdf, which is based on xpdf for the backend and does a better job than the gv-derived frontends
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You can generate PDFs by using Adobe's commercial AdobeAcrobat, see our [CreatingPDFs] page.
[Apple]'s [MacOSX] uses PDF for rendering images (and the user interface), which is why you can have true transparent windows on their [OS].
PDF is arguably a version of PostScript and is certainly a descendant 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.
