What is a PDF?
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most reliable, efficient, and effective way to distribute documents electronically. PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colors, and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Acrobat lets you convert any document into an Adobe PDF file, with its original appearance preserved, and then distribute it for viewing and printing on any system.

PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed and printed exactly as intended.

How to create a PDF
Create a PostScript file from a document, and then use Acrobat Distiller to convert that file to PDF. You can also convert PostScript files to PDF as an automated batch process.

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