Portable Document Format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.[2] Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed- layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics and other information needed to display it. In 1. 99. 1, Adobe Systems' co- founder John Warnock outlined a system called "Camelot"[3] that evolved into PDF. While Adobe Systems made the PDF specification available free of charge in 1.
PDF was a proprietary format, controlled by Adobe, until it was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2. International Organization for Standardization as ISO 3. ISO Committee of volunteer industry experts.
In 2. 00. 8, Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 3. Adobe that are necessary to make, use, sell, and distribute PDF compliant implementations.[6] However, there are still some proprietary technologies defined only by Adobe, such as Adobe XML Forms Architecture and Java. Script for Acrobat, which are referenced by ISO 3.
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ISO 3. 20. 00- 1 specification. These proprietary technologies are not standardized and their specification is published only on Adobe’s website.[7][8][9][1. The ISO committee is actively standardizing many of these as part of ISO 3. History[edit]PDF was developed in the early 1. It was among a number of competing formats such as Dj.
Vu (still developing), Envoy, Common Ground Digital Paper, Farallon Replica and even Adobe's own Post. Script format (. ps). In those early years before the rise of the World Wide Web and HTML documents, PDF was popular mainly in desktop publishingworkflows. PDF's adoption in the early days of the format's history was slow.[1. Adobe Acrobat, Adobe's suite for reading and creating PDF files, was not freely available; early versions of PDF had no support for external hyperlinks, reducing its usefulness on the Internet; the larger size of a PDF document compared to plain text required longer download times over the slower modems common at the time; and rendering PDF files was slow on the less powerful machines of the day. Adobe distributed its Acrobat Reader (now Adobe Reader) program free of charge from version 2. PDF, which eventually became the de facto standard for fixed- format electronic documents.[1.
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Documents that you scan directly into Adobe Acrobat and save as PDF files are not accessible to all. You can create links in a PDF document using Adobe Acrobat. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present and exchange documents reliably, independent of software, hardware, or operating system.
In 2. 00. 8 Adobe Systems' PDF Reference 1. ISO 3. 20. 00: 1: 2. Thereafter, further development of PDF (including PDF 2. ISO's TC 1. 71 SC 2 WG 8 with the participation of Adobe Systems and other subject matter experts.
Adobe specifications[edit]From 1. Adobe Systems changed the PDF specification several times to add new features. Various aspects of Adobe's Extension Levels published after 2.
ISO 3. 20. 00- 2 (PDF 2. Adobe's Extensions are not part of the PDF standard.[1. Version. Edition[4]Year of publication.
New features. Acrobat Reader version support. First. 19. 93[1. 7]Carousel. First, revised. 19. Passwords, encryption (MD5, RC4 4. First, revised. 19. Interactive page elements (radio buttons, checkboxes & c); interactive, fill- in forms (Acro.
Form); Forms Data Format (FDF) for interactive form data that can be imported, exported, transmitted and received from the Web; mouse events; external movie reproduction; external or embedded sound reproduction; zlib/deflate compression of text or binary data; Unicode; advanced color features and image proxying[1. Second. 20. 00. Digital signatures; ICC and Device. N color spaces; Java. Script actions; embedded file streams of any type (e. Adobe Post. Script Language Level 3 imaging model; masked images; alternate representations for images; smooth shading; enhanced page numbering; Web capture, a facility for capturing information from World Wide Web and converting it to PDF; representation of logical structure independently of graphical structure; additional support for CIDFonts; data structures for mapping strings and numbers to PDF objects; information for prepress production workflows support; new functions for several function object types that represent parameterized classes of functions; [1. Acrobat Forms Java. Script Object Specification Version 4.
Third. 20. 01. JBIG2; transparency; RC4 encryption key lengths greater than 4. Forms Data Format (FDF), XML form submissions, embedded FDF files, Unicode specification of field export values, remote collaboration and digital signatures in FDF files; accessibility to disabled users; metadata streams using Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP); tagged PDF; inclusion of printer’s marks; display and preview of production- related page boundaries; new predefined CMaps; alternate presentations; importing content from one PDF document into another; Embedded.
Files entry in the PDF document’s name dictionary, a standard location for the embedded data.; [2. Acrobat Forms Java.
Script Object Specification Version 4. Fourth. 20. 03. JPEG 2. XML Forms Data Format (XFDF) for interactive form submission (replaced the XML format in PDF 1. Adobe’s XML Forms Architecture (XFA) 2. XFA forms); public- key security handlers using PKCS#7 (introduced in PDF 1. Reference until 1.
UR) signatures (does not require document encryption), PKCS#7 with SHA- 1, RSA up to 4. CAD drawings, layered artwork, maps, and multi- language documents; Alternate Presentations – the only type is slideshow – invoked by means of Java. Script actions (Adobe Reader supports only SVG 1. Acrobat Java. Script Scripting Reference, Version 6. MS Windows 9. 8 dropped. Fifth. 20. 04. 3D artwork, e.
Universal 3. D file format; Open. Type font embedding; support for XFA 2.
XFA 2. 1 and 2. 2 defined for example the following features: dynamic XFA forms, W3. C XML digital signatures for XFA, XFA support for Web Services, XFA 'doc- literal' SOAP operations over HTTP, the Web Service's WSDL defines SOAP binding operations, etc.); AES encryption; PKCS#7 with SHA2. DSA up to 4. 09. 6- bits; NChannel color spaces; additional support for embedded file attachments, including cross- document linking to and from embedded files; enhancements and clarifications to digital signatures related to usage rights and modification detection and prevention signatures; [2. Acrobat Java. Script Scripting Reference, Version 7. ISO 3. 20. 00- 1: 2.
Sixth (ISO first)2. ISO 2. 00. 8)Increased presentation of 3.
D artwork; XFA 2. PDF consumer application; PKCS#7 with SHA3.
SHA5. 12 and RIPEMD1. Java. Script for Acrobat API Reference Version 8. Java. Script extensions for Adobe Acrobat Professional, Acrobat Standard and Adobe Reader)[2. Adobe Extension Level 1[2. XFA 2. 5 (Extensions Level 1) and XFA 2.
Extensions Level 2) (XFA 2. XFA Secure submit, new profile - XFA Foreground (XFAF) - each page of the XFA form overlays a PDF background, etc.)[3. Adobe Extension Level 3. AES encryption; incorporation of XFA Datasets into a file conforming PDF/A- 2; improved attachment of Adobe Flash applications (SWF), video (including Flash video with H. Flash player and conforming applications, navigator SWF file may be loaded as an Adobe Flex 2 module or as an ordinary SWF; XFA 2.
XFA 2. 7 and 2. 8[3. XFA 2. 7 and 2. 8 defined for example the following features: Authentication policy for web services, Submit via WSDL/SOAP, locale set typefaces, etc.)9. Adobe Extension Level 5[3.
XFA 3. 0. 9. 1. 1. Adobe Extension Level 6[3. XFA 3. 1. 9. 1. 1. Adobe Extension Level 8[3. XFA 3. 3 (e. g. Flash/SWF integration in XFA),[3. AES- 2. 56 different password handling than in Extension Level 3, because of a weakness in the password checking algorithm.[3.
Specification not published as of November 2. X (1. 0)The ISO standard ISO 3. Adobe PDF 1. 7 are technically consistent.[2.
Adobe declared that it is not producing a PDF 1. Reference. Future versions of the PDF Specification will be produced by ISO technical committees. However, Adobe published documents specifying what proprietary extended features for PDF, beyond ISO 3. PDF 1. 7), are supported in its newly released products.
This makes use of the extensibility features of PDF as documented in ISO 3. Annex E.[2. 7]The specifications for PDF are backward inclusive. The PDF 1. 7 specification includes all of the functionality previously documented in the Adobe PDF Specifications for versions 1.
Where Adobe removed certain features of PDF from their standard, they are not contained in ISO 3. Some features are marked as deprecated.
PDF documents conforming to ISO 3. PDF version number 1. Documents containing Adobe extended features still carry the PDF base version number 1. ISO Standardization[edit]Since 1.
Adobe participated in some of the working groups that create technical specifications for publication by ISO and cooperated within the ISO process on specialized subsets of PDF standards for specific industries and purposes (e. PDF/X or PDF/A).[4. The purpose of specialized subsets of the full PDF specification is to remove those functions that are not needed or can be problematic for specific purposes and to require some usage of functions that are only optional (not mandatory) in the full PDF specification. On January 2. 9, 2. Adobe announced that it would release the full Portable Document Format 1.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Enterprise Content Management Association (AIIM), for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).[4. ISO will produce future versions of the PDF specification and Adobe will be only one of the ISO technical committee members.[2. ISO standards for "full function PDF"[4. ISO 3. 20. 00. Full function PDF specification means that it is not only a subset of Adobe PDF specification; in the case of ISO 3. PDF includes everything defined in Adobe's PDF 1. However, Adobe later published extensions that are not part of the ISO standard.[2. There are also proprietary functions in the PDF specification, that are only referenced as external specifications.[8][1.
Standardized subsets of PDF[edit]The following specialized subsets of PDF specification has been standardized as ISO standards (or are in standardization process): [4][4. PDF/X (since 2. 00. ISO 1. 59. 29 and ISO 1. PDF for Exchange" - for the Graphic technology - Prepress digital data exchange - (working in ISO Technical committee 1. PDF 1. 3, PDF 1. 4 and later also PDF 1. PDF/A (since 2. 00. ISO 1. 90. 05 standards) - a.
PDF for Archive" - Document management - Electronic document file format for long- term preservation (working in ISO Technical committee 1. PDF 1. 4 and later also ISO 3.
PDF 1. 7. PDF/E (since 2. ISO 2. 45. 17) - a. PDF for Engineering" - Document management - Engineering document format using PDF (working in ISO Technical committee 1. PDF 1. 6. PDF/VT (since 2. ISO 1. 66. 12- 2) - a. PDF for exchange of variable data and transactional (VT) printing" - Graphic technology - Variable data exchange (working in ISO Technical committee 1.
PDF 1. 6 as restricted by PDF/X- 4 and PDF/X- 5[4. PDF/UA (since 2. 01. ISO 1. 42. 89- 1) - a. PDF for Universal Accessibility" - Document management applications - Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility (working in ISO Technical committee 1. ISO 3. 20. 00- 1 - PDF 1. There is also the PDF/H, a. PDF Healthcare, a best practices guide (BPG), supplemented by an Implementation Guide (IG), published in 2.
PDF Healthcare is not a standard or proposed standard, but only a guide for use with existing standards and other technologies. It is supported by the standards development organizations ASTM and AIIM.
PDF/H BPG is based on PDF 1. PDF 1. 7[edit]The final revised documentation for PDF 1. ISO Technical Committee 1. January 2. 00. 8 and published as ISO 3. July 1, 2. 00. 8 and titled Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1. ISO 3. 20. 00- 1: 2.
ISO standard for full function PDF. The previous ISO PDF standards (PDF/A, PDF/X, etc.) are intended for more specialized uses. ISO 3. 20. 00- 1 includes all of the functionality previously documented in the Adobe PDF Specifications for versions 1.
Adobe removed certain features of PDF from previous versions; these features are not contained in PDF 1. The ISO 3. 20. 00- 1 document was prepared by Adobe Systems Incorporated based upon PDF Reference, sixth edition, Adobe Portable Document Format version 1.
November 2. 00. 6. It was reviewed, edited and adopted under a special fast- track procedure, by ISO Technical Committee 1.
ISO/TC 1. 71), Document management application, Subcommittee SC 2, Application issues, in parallel with its approval by the ISO member bodies. According to the ISO PDF standard abstract: [4.
ISO 3. 20. 00- 1: 2. It is intended for the developer of software that creates PDF files (conforming writers), software that reads existing PDF files and interprets their contents for display and interaction (conforming readers) and PDF products that read and/or write PDF files for a variety of other purposes (conforming products). Some proprietary specifications under the control of Adobe Systems (e. Adobe Acrobat Java. Script or XML Forms Architecture) are in the normative references of ISO 3. ISO 3. 20. 00- 1.[4.
PDF 2. 0[edit]A new version of the PDF specification, ISO 3. PDF 2. 0) is under development by ISO's TC 1. SC 2 WG 8 Committee. To provide more time to develop the document the original ISO project was cancelled in 2.
New Project item was started.[4. The goals of the ISO committee developing PDF 2. PDF language and deprecation of features that are no longer used (e. Form XObject names) and standardization of Adobe proprietary specifications (e. Adobe Java. Script, Rich Text).[1. ISO TC 1. 71 SC 2 WG 8[edit]Formed in 2.
PDF Reference as an ISO Standard, Working Group 8 typically meets twice a year, with members from ten or more countries attending in each instance. Technical foundations[edit]Anyone may create applications that can read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems; Adobe holds patents to PDF, but licenses them for royalty- free use in developing software complying with its PDF specification.[5. The PDF combines three technologies: A subset of the Post. Script page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics. A font- embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents. A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate.
Post. Script[edit]Post. Script is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image, a process requiring many resources. It can handle not just graphics, but standard features of programming languages such as if and loop commands. PDF is largely based on Post. Script but simplified to remove flow control features like these, while graphics commands such as lineto remain. Often, the Post. Script- like PDF code is generated from a source Post. Script file. The graphics commands that are output by the Post.
Script code are collected and tokenized; any files, graphics, or fonts to which the document refers also are collected; then, everything is compressed to a single file. Therefore, the entire Post. Script world (fonts, layout, measurements) remains intact. As a document format, PDF has several advantages over Post. Script: PDF contains tokenized and interpreted results of the Post. Script source code, for direct correspondence between changes to items in the PDF page description and changes to the resulting page appearance. PDF (from version 1.
Post. Script does not. Post. Script is an interpreted programming language with an implicit global state, so instructions accompanying the description of one page can affect the appearance of any following page. Therefore, all preceding pages in a Post. Script document must be processed to determine the correct appearance of a given page, whereas each page in a PDF document is unaffected by the others. As a result, PDF viewers allow the user to quickly jump to the final pages of a long document, whereas a Post. Script viewer needs to process all pages sequentially before being able to display the destination page (unless the optional Post.
Script Document Structuring Conventions have been carefully complied with). Technical overview[edit]File structure[edit]A PDF file is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. COS is also used with FDF files.[5. A COS tree file consists primarily of objects, of which there are eight types: [5. Boolean values, representing true or false. Numbers. Strings. Names. Arrays, ordered collections of objects.
Dictionaries, collections of objects indexed by Names. Streams, usually containing large amounts of data. The null object. Objects may be either direct (embedded in another object) or indirect. Indirect objects are numbered with an object number and a generation number. An index table called the xref table gives the byte offset of each indirect object from the start of the file.[5. This design allows for efficient random access to the objects in the file, and also allows for small changes to be made without rewriting the entire file (incremental update).
Beginning with PDF version 1. This technique reduces the size of files that have large numbers of small indirect objects and is especially useful for Tagged PDF. There are two layouts to the PDF files: non- linear (not "optimized") and linear ("optimized"). Non- linear PDF files consume less disk space than their linear counterparts, though they are slower to access because portions of the data required to assemble pages of the document are scattered throughout the PDF file.
Linear PDF files (also called "optimized" or "web optimized" PDF files) are constructed in a manner that enables them to be read in a Web browser plugin without waiting for the entire file to download, since they are written to disk in a linear (as in page order) fashion.[2. PDF files may be optimized using Adobe Acrobat software or QPDF. Imaging model[edit]The basic design of how graphics are represented in PDF is very similar to that of Post. Script, except for the use of transparency, which was added in PDF 1. PDF graphics use a device independent. Cartesian coordinate system to describe the surface of a page. A PDF page description can use a matrix to scale, rotate, or skew graphical elements.
A key concept in PDF is that of the graphics state, which is a collection of graphical parameters that may be changed, saved, and restored by a page description. PDF has (as of version 1.
Vector graphics[edit]Vector graphics in PDF, as in Post. Script, are constructed with paths. Paths are usually composed of lines and cubic Bézier curves, but can also be constructed from the outlines of text. Unlike Post. Script, PDF does not allow a single path to mix text outlines with lines and curves. Paths can be stroked, filled, or used for clipping. Strokes and fills can use any color set in the graphics state, including patterns. PDF supports several types of patterns.
The simplest is the tiling pattern in which a piece of artwork is specified to be drawn repeatedly. This may be a colored tiling pattern, with the colors specified in the pattern object, or an uncolored tiling pattern, which defers color specification to the time the pattern is drawn. Beginning with PDF 1. There are seven types of shading pattern of which the simplest are the axial shade (Type 2) and radial shade (Type 3). Raster images[edit]Raster images in PDF (called Image XObjects) are represented by dictionaries with an associated stream. The dictionary describes properties of the image, and the stream contains the image data. Less commonly, a raster image may be embedded directly in a page description as an inline image.) Images are typically filtered for compression purposes.
Image filters supported in PDF include the general purpose filters. ASCII8. 5Decode a filter used to put the stream into 7- bit ASCIIASCIIHex. Decode similar to ASCII8. Decode but less compact. Flate. Decode a commonly used filter based on the deflate algorithm defined in RFC 1.
PNG, and zip file formats among others); introduced in PDF 1. Predictor 2 from the TIFF 6. PNG specification (RFC 2. LZWDecode a filter based on LZW Compression; it can use one of two groups of predictor functions for more compact LZW compression: Predictor 2 from the TIFF 6. PNG specification. Run. Length. Decode a simple compression method for streams with repetitive data using the run- length encoding algorithm and the image- specific filters. DCTDecode a lossy filter based on the JPEG standard.
CCITTFax. Decode a losslessbi- level (black/white) filter based on the Group 3 or Group 4. CCITT (ITU- T) fax compression standard defined in ITU- T T. T. 6. JBIG2. Decode a lossy or lossless bi- level (black/white) filter based on the JBIG2 standard, introduced in PDF 1. JPXDecode a lossy or lossless filter based on the JPEG 2. PDF 1. 5. Normally all image content in a PDF is embedded in the file.
But PDF allows image data to be stored in external files by the use of external streams or Alternate Images. Standardized subsets of PDF, including PDF/A and PDF/X, prohibit these features.
Text in PDF is represented by text elements in page content streams. A text element specifies that characters should be drawn at certain positions. The characters are specified using the encoding of a selected font resource. A font object in PDF is a description of a digital typeface. It may either describe the characteristics of a typeface, or it may include an embedded font file. The latter case is called an embedded font while the former is called an unembedded font. The font files that may be embedded are based on widely used standard digital font formats: Type 1 (and its compressed variant CFF), True.
Type, and (beginning with PDF 1. Open. Type. Additionally PDF supports the Type 3 variant in which the components of the font are described by PDF graphic operators. Standard Type 1 Fonts (Standard 1.
Fonts)[edit]Fourteen typefaces, known as the standard 1. PDF documents: These fonts are sometimes called the base fourteen fonts.[5. These fonts, or suitable substitute fonts with the same metrics, must always be available in all PDF readers and so need not be embedded in a PDF.[5. PDF viewers must know about the metrics of these fonts. Other fonts may be substituted if they are not embedded in a PDF. Encodings[edit]Within text strings, characters are shown using character codes (integers) that map to glyphs in the current font using an encoding. There are a number of predefined encodings, including Win.
Ansi, Mac. Roman, and a large number of encodings for East Asian languages, and a font can have its own built- in encoding. Although the Win. Ansi and Mac. Roman encodings are derived from the historical properties of the Windows and Macintosh operating systems, fonts using these encodings work equally well on any platform.) PDF can specify a predefined encoding to use, the font's built- in encoding or provide a lookup table of differences to a predefined or built- in encoding (not recommended with True. Type fonts).[5. 8] The encoding mechanisms in PDF were designed for Type 1 fonts, and the rules for applying them to True. Type fonts are complex. For large fonts or fonts with non- standard glyphs, the special encodings Identity- H (for horizontal writing) and Identity- V (for vertical) are used. With such fonts it is necessary to provide a To.
Unicode table if semantic information about the characters is to be preserved. Transparency[edit]The original imaging model of PDF was, like Post. Script's, opaque: each object drawn on the page completely replaced anything previously marked in the same location. In PDF 1. 4 the imaging model was extended to allow transparency. When transparency is used, new objects interact with previously marked objects to produce blending effects. The addition of transparency to PDF was done by means of new extensions that were designed to be ignored in products written to the PDF 1.
As a result, files that use a small amount of transparency might view acceptably in older viewers, but files making extensive use of transparency could be viewed incorrectly in an older viewer without warning. The transparency extensions are based on the key concepts of transparency groups, blending modes, shape, and alpha. The model is closely aligned with the features of Adobe Illustrator version 9. The blend modes were based on those used by Adobe Photoshop at the time.
When the PDF 1. 4 specification was published, the formulas for calculating blend modes were kept secret by Adobe. They have since been published.[5. The concept of a transparency group in PDF specification is independent of existing notions of "group" or "layer" in applications such as Adobe Illustrator. Those groupings reflect logical relationships among objects that are meaningful when editing those objects, but they are not part of the imaging model. Interactive elements[edit]PDF files may contain interactive elements such as annotations, form fields, video and Flash animation. Rich Media PDF is a term that is used to describe interactive content that can be embedded or linked to inside of a PDF. This content must be produced using the Flash file format.
When Adobe bought Macromedia, the jewel of the company was Flash, and the Flash player was embedded inside Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, removing the need for third- party plug- ins such as Flash, Quick. Time, or Windows Media. Unfortunately, this caused a rift with Apple as Quick. Time video was prohibited from PDF. Rich Media expert Robert Connolly believes this event triggered the war between Apple and Adobe over the Flash i. Phone/i. Pad dispute. Rich Media PDF will not operate in Apple's i.
OS devices such as the i. Pad and interactivity is limited. Interactive Forms is a mechanism to add forms to the PDF file format.
PDF currently supports two different methods for integrating data and PDF forms. Both formats today coexist in PDF specification: [4.
Acro. Forms (also known as Acrobat forms), introduced in the PDF 1. PDF specifications. Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA) forms, introduced in the PDF 1. The XFA specification is not included in the PDF specification, it is only referenced as an optional feature. Adobe XFA Forms are not compatible with Acro. Forms.[6. 3]Acro.
Forms[edit]Acro. Forms were introduced in the PDF 1. Acro. Forms permit using objects (e. Radio buttons, etc.) and some code (e. Java. Script). Alongside the standard PDF action types, interactive forms (Acro. Forms) support submitting, resetting, and importing data. The "submit" action transmits the names and values of selected interactive form fields to a specified uniform resource locator (URL). Interactive form field names and values may be submitted in any of the following formats, (depending on the settings of the action’s Export.
Format, Submit. PDF, and XFDF flags): [4. HTML Form format (HTML 4. Specification since PDF 1. HTML 2. 0 since 1. Forms Data Format (FDF)XML Forms Data Format (XFDF) (external XML Forms Data Format Specification, Version 2. PDF 1. 5; it replaced the "XML" form submission format defined in PDF 1.
PDF (the entire document can be submitted rather than individual fields and values). PDF 1. 4)Acro. Forms can keep form field values in external stand- alone files containing key: value pairs. The external files may use Forms Data Format (FDF) and XML Forms Data Format (XFDF) files.[6. The usage rights (UR) signatures define rights for import form data files in FDF, XFDF and text (CSV/TSV) formats, and export form data files in FDF and XFDF formats.[4. Forms Data Format (FDF)[edit]The Forms Data Format (FDF) is based on PDF, it uses the same syntax and has essentially the same file structure, but is much simpler than PDF, since the body of an FDF document consists of only one required object.
Forms Data Format is defined in the PDF specification (since PDF 1. The Forms Data Format can be used when submitting form data to a server, receiving the response, and incorporating into the interactive form.
It can also be used to export form data to stand- alone files that can be imported back into the corresponding PDF interactive form. Beginning in PDF 1. FDF can be used to define a container for annotations that are separate from the PDF document they apply to. FDF typically encapsulates information such as X. PDF files for network transmission.[6. The FDF uses the MIME content type application/vnd. Mac OS it uses file type 'FDF'.[4.
Support for importing and exporting FDF stand- alone files is not widely implemented in free or freeware PDF software. For example, there is no import/export support in Evince, Okular, Poppler, KPDF or Sumatra PDF, however, Evince, Okular and Poppler support filling in of PDF Acroforms and saving filled data inside the PDF file. Import support for stand- alone FDF files is implemented in Adobe Reader; export and import support (including saving of FDF data in PDF) is for example implemented in Foxit Reader and PDF- XChange Viewer Free; saving of FDF data in a PDF file is also supported in pdftk. XML Forms Data Format (XFDF)[edit]XML Forms Data Format (XFDF) is the XML version of Forms Data Format, but the XFDF implements only a subset of FDF containing forms and annotations. There are not XFDF equivalents for some entries in the FDF dictionary - such as the Status, Encoding, Java. Script, Pages keys, Embedded.
FDFs, Differences and Target. In addition, XFDF does not allow the spawning, or addition, of new pages based on the given data; as can be done when using an FDF file.
The XFDF specification is referenced (but not included) in PDF 1. It is described separately in XML Forms Data Format Specification.[6. The PDF 1. 4 specification allowed form submissions in XML format, but this was replaced by submissions in XFDF format in the PDF 1. XFDF conforms to the XML standard.
As of November 2. XFDF 3. 0 is in the ISO/IEC standardization process under the formal name ISO/CD 1.
Document management - XML forms data format - Part 1: XFDF 3. XFDF can be used the same way as FDF; e. It can also be used to export form data to stand- alone files that can be imported back into the corresponding PDF interactive form. A support for importing and exporting XFDF stand- alone files is not widely implemented in free or freeware PDF software.
Import of XFDF is implemented in Adobe Reader 5 and later versions; import and export is implemented in PDF- XChange Viewer Free; embedding of XFDF data in PDF form is implemented in pdftk (pdf toolkit). Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA)[edit]In the PDF 1. Adobe Systems introduced a new, proprietary format for forms, namely Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA) forms. The XFA 2. 0. 2 is referenced in the PDF 1. Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA) Specification, which has several versions.[7.
XFA specification is not included in ISO 3. PDF 1. 7 and is only referenced as an external proprietary specification created by Adobe. XFA was not standardized as an ISO standard. In 2. 01. 1 the ISO Committee (TC 1.
SC 2/WG 8) urged Adobe Systems to submit the XFA Specification for standardization.[8]Adobe XFA Forms are not compatible with Acro. Forms. Adobe Reader contains "disabled features" for use of XFA Forms, that activate only when opening a PDF document that was created using enabling technology available only from Adobe.[7.
The XFA Forms are not compatible with Adobe Reader prior to version 6. XFA forms can be created and used as PDF files or as XDP (XML Data Package) files. The format of an XFA resource in PDF is described by the XML Data Package Specification.[4. The XDP may be a standalone document or it may in turn be carried inside a PDF document. XDP provides a mechanism for packaging form components within a surrounding XML container. An XDP can also package a PDF file, along with XML form and template data.[7.
PDF may contain XFA (in XDP format), but also XFA may contain PDF.[7. When the XFA (XML Forms Architecture) grammars used for an XFA form are moved from one application to another, they must be packaged as an XML Data Package.[7.
When the PDF and XFA are combined, the result is a form in which each page of the XFA form overlays a PDF background. This architecture is sometimes referred to as XFAF (XFA Foreground). The alternative is to express all of the form, including boilerplate, directly in XFA (without using PDF, or only using "Shell PDF" which is a container for XFA with minimal skeleton of PDF markup, or using a pre- rendered depiction of a static XFA form as PDF pages). It is sometimes called full XFA.[7. Starting with PDF 1. These rich text strings are XML documents that conform to the rich text conventions specified for the XML Forms Architecture specification 2. XHTML 1. 0 specification, augmented with a restricted set of CSS2 style attributes.[4.
In PDF 1. 6, PDF supports the rich text elements and attributes specified in the XML Forms Architecture (XFA) Specification, 2. In PDF 1. 7, PDF supports the rich text elements and attributes specified in the XML Forms Architecture (XFA) Specification, 2. Most PDF processors do not handle XFA content. When generating a shell PDF it is recommended to include in the PDF markup a simple one- page PDF image displaying a warning message (e. To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer.", etc.). PDF processors that can render XFA content should either not display the supplied warning page image or replace it quickly with the dynamic form content.[3.
Examples of PDF software with some support of XFA rendering include Adobe Reader for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (but not Adobe Reader Mobile for Android or i. OS) or Nuance PDF Reader.
Logical structure and accessibility[edit]A "tagged" PDF (ISO 3. Technically speaking, tagged PDF is a stylized use of the format that builds on the logical structure framework introduced in PDF 1. Tagged PDF defines a set of standard structure types and attributes that allow page content (text, graphics, and images) to be extracted and reused for other purposes.[7. Tagged PDF is not required in situations where a PDF file is intended only for print. Since the feature is optional, and since the rules for Tagged PDF as specified in ISO 3. PDF amongst consuming devices, including assistive technology (AT), is uneven.[7. An AIIM project to develop an ISO- standardized subset of PDF specifically targeted at accessibility began in 2.
PDF/UA. Security and signatures[edit]A PDF file may be encrypted for security, or digitally signed for authentication. The standard security provided by Acrobat PDF consists of two different methods and two different passwords, user password, which encrypts the file and prevents opening, and owner password, which specifies operations that should be restricted even when the document is decrypted, which can include: printing, copying text and graphics out of the document, modifying the document, or adding or modifying text notes and Acro. Form fields. The user password (controls opening) encrypts the file and requires password cracking to defeat, with difficulty depending on password strength and encryption method – it is potentially very secure (assuming good password and encryption method without known attacks). The owner password (controls operations) does not encrypt the file, and instead relies on client software to respect these restrictions, and is not secure.
An "owner password" can be removed by many commonly available "PDF cracking" software, including some free online services.[7. Thus, the use restrictions that a document author places on a PDF document are not secure, and cannot be assured once the file is distributed; this warning is displayed when applying such restrictions using Adobe Acrobat software to create or edit PDF files.
Even without removing the password, most freeware or open source PDF readers ignore the permission "protections" and allow the user to print or make copy of excerpts of the text as if the document were not limited by password protection. Some solutions, like Adobe's Live. Cycle Rights Management, are more robust means of information rights management, which can not only restrict who can open documents but also reliably enforce permissions in ways that the standard security handler does not.
Usage rights[edit]Beginning with PDF 1. Usage rights (UR) signatures are used to enable additional interactive features that are not available by default in a particular PDF viewer application. The signature is used to validate that the permissions have been granted by a bona fide granting authority.
For example, it can be used to allow a user: [4. PDF document along with modified form and/or annotation dataimport form data files in FDF, XFDF and text (CSV/TSV) formatsexport form data files in FDF and XFDF formatssubmit form datainstantiate new pages from named page templatesapply a digitalsignature to existing digital signature form fieldcreate, delete, modify, copy, import, export annotations. For example, Adobe Systems grants permissions to enable additional features in Adobe Reader, using public- key cryptography.
Adobe Reader verifies that the signature uses a certificate from an Adobe- authorized certificate authority. The PDF 1. 5 specification declares that other PDF viewer applications are free to use this same mechanism for their own purposes.[4. File attachments[edit]PDF files can have document- level and page- level file attachments, which the reader can access and open or save to their local filesystem. PDF attachments can be added to existing PDF files for example using pdftk. Adobe Reader provides support for attachments, and poppler based readers like Evince or Okular also have some support for document- level attachments. Metadata[edit]PDF files can contain two types of metadata.[7. The first is the Document Information Dictionary, a set of key/value fields such as author, title, subject, creation and update dates.
This is stored in the optional Info trailer of the file. A small set of fields is defined, and can be extended with additional text values if required. Later, in PDF 1. 4, support was added for the Metadata Streams, using the Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) to add XML standards- based extensible metadata as used in other file formats.
This allows metadata to be attached to any stream in the document, such as information about embedded illustrations, as well as the whole document (attaching to the document catalog), using an extensible schema. ISO 3. 20. 00- 2: Next- generation PDF[edit]Known in PDF syntax terms as "PDF- 2. ISO 3. 20. 00- 2 will be the first update to the PDF specification developed entirely within the ISO Committee process (TC 1. SC 2 WG 8). Publication of ISO 3. Interested parties resident in TC 1. Member or Observer countries and wishing to participate should contact their country's Member Body or the secretary of TC 1.
SC 2.[7. 8] Members of the PDF Association may review and comment on drafts via the PDF Association's Category A liaison with ISO TC 1. SC 2.[7. 9]Adobe was exploring an XML- based next- generation PDF code- named Mars.[8. The format of graphic elements of Mars was sometimes described simply as SVG,[8. November 2. 00. 7 (§3 Mars SVG Support) the format was actually merely similar to SVG: it contained both additions to and subtractions from SVG, so it was in general neither viewable by nor creatable with standard SVG tools: some things looked noticeably different between SVG viewers and Mars viewers. Adobe Systems ceased development of Mars in 2.
Technical issues[edit]Scanned documents[edit]PDF files created by scanning hard- copy documents containing primarily text do not have the same structure as a PDF file of the same document created directly. The scanned document internally contains a picture of the document, with no information about the text. As far as a user can see it is just another PDF file, with a name and extension indistinguishable from any other; a good scan may look exactly the same as a native PDF file, although a visually poor- quality file, often with skewed pages, gives away its nature. However, the file size will be different, and it will not be possible to search for text.
For a scan of adequate quality it is possible with suitable software to regenerate the text of the document with Optical character recognition (OCR), and embed it in the file so as to make it searchable, subject to the accuracy of the OCR. Accessibility[edit]PDF files can be created specifically to be accessible for disabled people.[8. PDF file formats in use as of 2. XML), text equivalents, captions, audio descriptions, etc. Tagged PDF is required in the PDF/A- 1a specification.[8. Some software can automatically produce tagged PDFs, but this feature is not always enabled by default.[9. Leading screen readers, including JAWS, Window- Eyes, Hal, and Kurzweil 1.
PDFs aloud, as can later versions of the Acrobat and Acrobat Reader programs.[9. Moreover, tagged PDFs can be re- flowed and magnified for readers with visual impairments. Problems remain with adding tags to older PDFs and those that are generated from scanned documents. In these cases, accessibility tags and re- flowing are unavailable, and must be created either manually or with OCR techniques. These processes are inaccessible to some disabled people. One of the significant challenges with PDF accessibility is that PDF documents have three distinct views, which, depending on the document's creation, can be inconsistent with each other. The three views are (i) the physical view, (ii) the tags view, and (iii) the content view.
The physical view is displayed and printed (what most people consider a PDF document). The tags view is what screen readers and other assistive technologies use to deliver a high- quality navigation and reading experience to users with disabilities. The content view is based on the physical order of objects within the PDF's content stream and may be displayed by software that does not fully support the tags view, such as the Reflow feature in Adobe's Reader. PDF/UA, the International Standard for accessible PDF based on ISO 3. ISO 1. 42. 89- 1 in 2. PDF technology. Viruses and exploits[edit]PDF attachments carrying viruses were first discovered in 2.
The virus, named OUTLOOK. PDFWorm or Peachy, uses Microsoft Outlook to send itself as an attachment to an Adobe PDF file. It was activated with Adobe Acrobat, but not with Acrobat Reader.[9. From time to time, new vulnerabilities are discovered[9. Adobe Reader, prompting the company to issue security fixes. Other PDF readers are also susceptible.
One aggravating factor is that a PDF reader can be configured to start automatically if a web page has an embedded PDF file, providing a vector for attack. If a malicious web page contains an infected PDF file that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the PDF reader, the system may be compromised even if the browser is secure. Some of these vulnerabilities are a result of the PDF standard allowing PDF documents to be scripted with Java.
Script. Disabling Java. Script execution in the PDF reader can help mitigate such future exploits, although it does not protect against exploits in other parts of the PDF viewing software. Security experts say that Java. Script is not essential for a PDF reader, and that the security benefit that comes from disabling Java. Script outweighs any compatibility issues caused.[9. One way of avoiding PDF file exploits is to have a local or web service convert files to another format before viewing.
On March 3. 0, 2. Didier Stevens reported an Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader exploit that runs a malicious executable if the user allows it to launch when asked.[9. Usage restrictions and monitoring[edit]PDFs may be encrypted so that a password is needed to view or edit the contents. The PDF Reference defines both 4. RC4 and MD5. The PDF Reference also defines ways that third parties can define their own encryption systems for PDF. PDF files may also contain embedded DRM restrictions that provide further controls that limit copying, editing or printing.
The restrictions on copying, editing, or printing depend on the reader software to obey them, so the security they provide is limited. The PDF Reference has technical details for an end- user overview.[9. Like HTML files, PDF files may submit information to a web server. This could be used to track the IP address of the client PC, a process known as phoning home.
After update 7. 0. Acrobat Reader, the user is notified ".. via a dialogue box that the author of the file is auditing usage of the file, and be offered the option of continuing."[1.
Through its Live. Cycle Policy Server product, Adobe provides a method to set security policies on specific documents.
This can include requiring a user to authenticate and limiting the period during which a document can be accessed or amount of time a document can be opened while offline. Once a PDF document is tied to a policy server and a specific policy, that policy can be changed or revoked by the owner.
This controls documents that are otherwise "in the wild." Each document open and close event can also be tracked by the policy server. Policy servers can be set up privately or Adobe offers a public service through Adobe Online Services. As with other forms of DRM, adherence to these policies and restrictions may or may not be enforced by the reader software being used. Default display settings[edit]PDF documents can contain display settings, including the page display layout and zoom level.
Adobe Reader uses these settings to override the user's default settings when opening the document.[1. The free Adobe Reader cannot remove these settings. Content[edit]A PDF file is often a combination of vector graphics, text, and bitmap graphics. The basic types of content in a PDF are: Text stored as content streams (i.
Vector graphics for illustrations and designs that consist of shapes and lines. Raster graphics for photographs and other types of image. Multimedia objects in the document. In later PDF revisions, a PDF document can also support links (inside document or web page), forms, Java. Script (initially available as plugin for Acrobat 3.
PDF 1. 6 supports interactive 3. D documents embedded in the PDF - 3. D drawings can be embedded using U3. D or PRC and various other data formats.[1. Two PDF files that look similar on a computer screen may be of very different sizes.
For example, a high resolution raster image takes more space than a low resolution one. Typically higher resolution is needed for printing documents than for displaying them on screen. Other things that may increase the size of a file is embedding full fonts, especially for Asiatic scripts, and storing text as graphics. Software[edit]PDF viewers are generally provided free of charge, and many versions are available from a variety of sources.
There are many software options for creating PDFs, including the PDF printing capabilities built into Mac OS X and most Linux distributions, Libre. Office, Microsoft Office 2. SP2),[1. 04]Word. Perfect 9, Scribus, numerous PDF print drivers for Microsoft Windows, the pdf. Te. X typesetting system, the Doc. Book PDF tools, applications developed around Ghostscript and Adobe Acrobat itself as well as Adobe In.
Design, Adobe Frame. Maker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop. Google's online office suite Google Docs also allows for uploading, and saving to PDF. Raster image processors (RIPs) are used to convert PDF files into a raster format suitable for imaging onto paper and other media in printers, digital production presses and prepress in a process known as rasterisation. RIPs capable of processing PDF directly include the Adobe PDF Print Engine[1. Adobe Systems and Jaws[1.
Harlequin RIP from Global Graphics. Editing[edit]There is specialized software for editing PDF files, though the choices are much more limited and often more expensive than creating and editing standard editable document formats. Version 0. 4. 6 and later of Inkscape allows PDF editing through an intermediate translation step involving Poppler.
Serif Page. Plus can open, edit and save existing PDF documents, as well as publishing of documents created in the package. Enfocus Pit. Stop Pro, a plugin for Acrobat, allows manual and automatic editing of PDF files,[1. Enfocus Browser makes it possible to edit the low- level structure of a PDF.[1. Dochub, is a free online PDF editing tool that can be used without purchasing anything.[1. Annotation[edit]Adobe Acrobat is one example of proprietary software that allows the user to annotate, highlight, and add notes to already created PDF files. One UNIX application available as free software (under the GNU General Public License) is PDFedit.
Another GPL- licensed application native to the unix environment is Xournal. Xournal allows for annotating in different fonts and colours, as well as a rule for quickly underlining and highlighting lines of text or paragraphs. Xournal also has a shape recognition tool for squares, rectangles and circles. In Xournal annotations may be moved, copied and pasted.
The freeware. Foxit Reader, available for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux, allows annotating documents. Tracker Software's PDF- XChange Viewer allows annotations and markups without restrictions in its freeware alternative.
Apple's Mac OS X's integrated PDF viewer, Preview, does also enable annotations as does the freeware Skim, with the latter supporting interaction with La. Te. X, Sync. Te. X, and PDFSync and integration with Bib. Desk reference management software. Freeware Qiqqa can create an annotation report that summarizes all the annotations and notes one has made across their library of PDFs. For mobile annotation, i. Annotate PDF (from Branchfire) and Good. Reader (from Aji) allow annotation of PDFs as well as exporting summaries of the annotations.
There are also web annotation systems that support annotation in pdf and other documents formats, e. A. nnotate, crocodoc, Web. Notes. In cases where PDFs are expected to have all of the functionality of paper documents, ink annotation is required. Some programs that accept ink input from the mouse may not be responsive enough for handwriting input on a tablet.
Existing solutions on the PC include PDF Annotator and Qiqqa. Examples of PDF software as online services including Scribd for viewing and storing, Pdfvue for online editing, and Zamzar for PDF Conversion. In 1. 99. 3 the Jaws raster image processor from Global Graphics became the first shipping prepress RIP that interpreted PDF natively without conversion to another format. The company released an upgrade to their Harlequin RIP with the same capability in 1. Agfa- Gevaert introduced and shipped Apogee, the first prepress workflow system based on PDF, in 1.
Many commercial offset printers have accepted the submission of press- ready PDF files as a print source, specifically the PDF/X- 1a subset and variations of the same.[1. The submission of press- ready PDF files are a replacement for the problematic need for receiving collected native working files. PDF was selected as the "native" metafile format for Mac OS X, replacing the PICT format of the earlier Mac OS. The imaging model of the Quartz graphics layer is based on the model common to Display Post. Script and PDF, leading to the nickname Display PDF. The Preview application can display PDF files, as can version 2.
Safari web browser. System- level support for PDF allows Mac OS X applications to create PDF documents automatically, provided they support the OS- standard printing architecture. The files are then exported in PDF 1. When taking a screenshot under Mac OS X versions 1. PDF; later versions save screen captures as a PNG file, though this behaviour can be set back to PDF if desired. Some desktop printers also support direct PDF printing, which can interpret PDF data without external help.
Currently, all PDF capable printers also support Post. Script, but most Post. Script printers do not support direct PDF printing. The Free Software Foundation once considered one of their high priority projects to be "developing a free, high- quality and fully functional set of libraries and programs that implement the PDF file format and associated technologies to the ISO 3.
In 2. 01. 1, however, the GNU PDF project was removed from the list of "high priority projects" due to the maturation of the Poppler library,[1. Evince with the GNOME desktop environment. Poppler is based on Xpdf[1.
There are also commercial development libraries available as listed in List of PDF software. The Apache PDFBox project of the Apache Software Foundation is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
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