What does PDF give to a webmaster?

PDF (Portable Document Format) allows saving photos, vector graphics, text and other objects with different layout levels in one document. PDF is cross-platform format that saves display accuracy including such details as gaps, full stops and commas.

Many documents are published in the Internet in PDF. It is convenient to spread documents that are assigned for printing or reading from screen in PDF. PDF documents differ from those in HTML due to their ability to be viewed in any browser the same way.

With the help of PDF it is profitable to spread e-books, technical information, manuals, etc. PDF allows high protection from copying - set of options including 'Can Print', 'Can Modify', 'Can extract' and others, - for authors and owners of information spread via the Internet. Just choose required PDF permissions and share your documents.

PDF documents are convenient to distribute, as a result PDF is widely used in marketing sphere. A PDF document consists of only one file unlike HTML that contains external elements such as graphics and style sheets (CSS). This fact makes PDF more accurate and convenient when mailing documents.

PDF is also more convenient in comparison with Microsoft Word. There is no doubt that Word format suits good for text document creation, but it is less protected from copying.

To view PDF documents you need special program - Acrobat Reader - that is freely distributed by Adobe Systems. Certain browsers can view PDF documents and also there are several programs for viewing PDF files.

You can see that PDF have advantages in usage in comparison with HTML and Word. Thus it is reasonable to convert HTML to PDF and Word to PDF. For these purposes you can use several applications such as FastPDF, Altsoft Xml2PDF, Antenna House Formatter and many PDF printers available in the Internet.

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