Source format
PDF (Portable Document Format)
The format for documents to send, sign and archive: it looks the same on every device and can hold text, images and many pages in one file. It’s what public offices, schools, banks and online portals ask for.
- Best for
- Documents, forms, scans, collections of photos to send as a single file.
- Limits
- Editing its content is awkward: to work on it, convert it to Word.
- Type
- laid-out document
- Editable
- with dedicated software
- Compatibility
- universal
- Extensions
- Since
- 1993