{"id":10,"date":"2007-10-30T00:11:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T07:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/pdf-files\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T02:53:56","slug":"pdf-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/pdf-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Operating Systems professor at Ohio University (a big Microsoft basher) told us, &#8220;In the real world, there are just 3 ways to send documents PDF, PostScript and TXT. Thats how I&#8217;m going to accept your assignments. And extra points to those who submit their homework in PostScript. I don&#8217;t read DOC files.&#8221; Hmm&#8230; that tone sound familiar? I loved Microsoft Office since it was quick and easy to use, and it was installed in the labs but free PDF Creators weren&#8217;t so common, nor could I afford a PDF software like Adobe Acrobat so that was out of question, TXT did not support images so I used LaTeX and submitted my assignments in PS. And boy, was that painful?<\/p>\n<p>These days, PDFs can be created so easily and no wonder why they&#8217;re so popular. Here are some of the advantages of PDF files that make me a big fan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Simplicity<\/strong>&#8211; One single document holds it all, as opposed to HTML which needs images, stylesheets, scripts etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multi-platform<\/strong> &#8211; The same document can be viewed on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris etc. and look exactly the same.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Read Only&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; Cannot be altered without leaving an electronic footprint. As opposed to images that can be easily altered.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consistent <\/strong>&#8211; Preserve information like text, drawings, fonts, color graphics, photos regardless of the applications used to create them<\/li>\n<li><strong>Searchable <\/strong>&#8211; Full-text support for keywords.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interactive <\/strong>&#8211; Can be used as Forms for user input as used by US Government for IRS Forms, USCIS, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extensible <\/strong>&#8211; Generated programmatically for PDF based business solutions like Investor Statements etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secure <\/strong>&#8211; Allow digital signatures and password protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The PDF is the de facto standard for secure and dependable electronic exchange and used by industries and governments worldwide. Its a sensation in the printing world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Operating Systems professor at Ohio University (a big Microsoft basher) told us, &#8220;In the real world, there are just 3 ways to send documents PDF, PostScript and TXT. Thats how I&#8217;m going to accept your assignments. And extra points to those who submit their homework in PostScript. I don&#8217;t read DOC files.&#8221; Hmm&#8230; that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}