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“portable document format”
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*BRANDS* –>
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*[pdf] is a [file format] developed by [adobe] in the 1990s to present [documents] – including [text formatting] + [images] – in a manner independent of…*
‘application software’
‘hardware’
‘operating systems’
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*based on the ‘PostScript language’, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, vector graphics, raster images and other information needed to display it.
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(‘PDF’ was standardized as ‘ISO 32000’ in 2008 and no longer requires any ‘royalties’ for its ‘implementation’)
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