Name | Portable Document Format (PDF) |
|---|---|
| Short name | |
| Developed by | Adobe (until 2008) ISO (since 2008) |
| Year | 1993 (first version) 2017 (PDF 2.0) |
| Pros | Lossless Protects intellectual property Maintains printed format |
| Cons | Longer browser loading times Non-editable content Not great for complex graphics printing Not really useful as a graphic image |
| Features | |
| Vector graphics | Yes |
| Raster image | Yes |
| Lossless | Yes |
| Animation support | No |
| Transparency support | No |
| Layers support | No |
| HDR | |
| Maximum bit depth | |
| CMYK support (for print) | Yes |
| Maximum number of channels | |
| Commonly used for | Fixed layout flat documents |
| Browser support (without plugin) | |
| Google Chrome | Yes |
| Microsoft Edge | Yes |
| Safari | No |
| Firefox | Yes |
| Opera | Yes |
| Internet Explorer | Yes |
| Additional | |
| File extensions | |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia.org/... |
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