Adobe PDF
Secure, reliable electronic document distribution and exchange
Invented by Adobe Systems and with more than ten years of innovation, Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is a publicly available specification used by standards bodies around the world for secure, reliable electronic document distribution and exchange. Adobe PDF has been adopted by governments and enterprises to streamline document management, increase productivity, and reduce reliance on paper. Today, Adobe PDF is the standard, secure format for the electronic submission of drug approvals to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and for electronic case filing in U.S. federal courts. It is also the standard format used for advertising pages, in newspapers and magazines.
As an open file format specification, PDF is available to anyone who wants to develop tools to create, view, or manage PDF documents. More than 1,800 vendors offer PDF-based solutions.
- Preserve the look and integrity of your original documents — Adobe PDF files look exactly like the original pages and fulfill requirements for electronic filing and document security.
- Share documents with anyone — Anyone can open Adobe PDF documents on any system — regardless of the software platform, the original application, or the availability of specific fonts — using free Adobe Reader® software.
- Easy to use — Adobe PDF files have more features to enhance usability than PDF files created from non-Adobe applications — embedded fonts, color profile information for more accurate color rendition across different systems, as well as tags in the document that reflow the pages for different screen displays.
- More secure document exchange — With Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 or Adobe LiveCycle™ software, you can password-protect PDF files to prevent unauthorized viewing and altering, while also enabling authorized reviewers to use intuitive commenting and editing tools.
- Searchable — Adobe PDF files are searchable for words appearing in the text and in annotations, bookmarks, and data fields.
