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A proprietary format launched in 1992, owned by Adobe until 2008, after which it was released and relicensed as an ISO standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
Readings
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-worlds-most-important-file-format
- https://planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/warnock_camelot.pdf
PDF & Postscript
PDF manipulating/editing tools
pdftk (the PDF toolkit)
pdfimages (part of poppler-utils)
pdfunite (part of poppler-utils)
pdftotext (part of poppler-utils)
$ pdftotext filename.pdf $ pdftotext -layout filename.pdf (Maintain (as best as possible) the original physical layout of the text.)
pdfinfo (part of poppler-utils)
$ pdfinfo filename.pdf $ pdfinfo -meta filename.pdf (print metadata) $ pdfinfo -url filename.pdf (print all urls) $ pdfinfo -dests filename.pdf (print all internal links)
pdffonts (part of poppler-utils)
rgb2cmyk.sh (using Ghostscript), part of OSP's pdfutils
coloseperation.sh (using Ghostscript), part of OSP's pdfutils
resize.sh (using Ghostscript), via OSP
imposition tools (multiple)
See also
- Imposition tools, to rearrange PDFs
- Typesetting Tools
- CSS Print
- Category:PagedMedia
- Category:FLOSS design