subject: Features And Functions Of A Portable Document Format [print this page] A Portable Document Format is a computer application designed by Adobe Systems in 1993 to introduce to the world electronic documents for managing huge amount of information. It is a non-editable file format by which it is easy to share your ideas and concepts with physically distant users across the world. This format is also secure as it protects the data from any kind of hamper or alteration. The document is also less prone to the computer viruses. Therefore, it is universally deployed by the Internet users.
A Portable Document Format is application by which you can work digitally eliminate the cumbersome task of paperwork. If you need to store your data in the paper documents or files, you can maintain these files. Maintenance of paper files consumes a lot of time and energy as well as monetary expenditure. Therefore, using Portable Document Format does not involve so much of time and money. It is an inexpensive way to store and share information in this portable and compatible format. You just need to create your content in an editable format and then convert the document from editable to non-editable application (PDF). It is easy to convert the data into an editable document with the help of PDF converter tools available in the market. This computer application is compatible or portable as it is equipped with the compression algorithms. These compression algorithms compress the size of the data (text and images) that reduces the size of the complete file. In this way, you can transfer the files to the physically distant users using computer systems with different configuration. You can also encrypt the files with passwords so that one cannot alter or modify the text or data in the format. In this way, the application meets a legal document requirement. A Portable Document Format file can be created out of any other format such as Word, Excel, etc. The content displayed in this application can be viewed even on the web browsers. This file format is independent of the hardware, software or operating system. As a result, you can have access to this application on any system.
