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Adobe Acrobat and PDF

Adobe Acrobat and Portable Document Format (PDF) have clearly revolutionized the

publishing industry by signicantly enhancing the document production workow. A

PDF le represents a reliable and complete digital master for a document, whether it is a

single-page letter or a 900-page tome.

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Everything that is needed to display or print the

document can and should be embedded.

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e primary goal and function of Adobe Acrobat and PDF is to achieve true document

portability, which explains Portable Document Format as a suitable name. Its code name

was Carousel while it was under development. is is more or less the same as informa-

tion interchange, but carried one step further, specically to include highly stylized text

and graphics. is further step functions to preserve the “look and feel” of a document

across platforms. is includes the typefaces, graphics, and even color. No longer will you

need the application that created the original document, and no longer will Courier be

used to replaced missing fonts. You may have guessed that Adobe Acrobat uses Super-

ATM technology’s font metrics database to accomplish part of its goals. Although Super-

ATM itself is dead, as an independent product, its functionality is alive and well even in

the latest version of Acrobat (version 9.0 as of this writing).

Adobe Acrobat, specically ...