Document management — Portable document format: PDF 1.7

PDF is the native file format for Adobe Systems' new technology, the Adobe Acrobat family of products. Its purpose is to allow representation of documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. Coverage here is detailed and comprehensive, describing syntax and structure, objects, and page description operators, as well as optimization techniques. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.