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PDFA

PDF/A, ISO-standardized version of the PDF, specialized for the digital preservation of electronic documents


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Abstract management

The abstracts are either uploaded as documents (typically Microsoft Word, PDF or LaTeX) or, where graphics and tables are not required, they may simply be entered into the form as plain text.

Altsoft Xml2PDF

Altsoft XML2PDF Formatting Engine is a demoware Microsoft .NET based family of server and desktop products for publishing various XML documents such as XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML and pure HTML, Microsoft Word (DOCX and older WordML and Doc ) to print ready output formats including PDF (with PDF/A and PDF/X support), XPS , SVG and raster graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG,PNG, WMF).

British railway technical manuals

This was available to the public in printed form until May 2007, and is now available from Network Rail in PDF format only.

Camera-ready

# It is created with a software program commonly used in the printing industry, such as LaTeX, InDesign (Adobe), Illustrator (Adobe), Freehand (Adobe/Macromedia), Quark XPress (Quark, Inc), and exported in a commonly used file format, such as EPS, PDF and sometimes TIFF.

Canadian Newcomer Magazine

Although the magazine’s philosophy has always been to offer information in the languages of the marketplace in Canada, their website also offers multilingual editions (available in .pdf format) in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian and Korean.

Casio Exilim

Adobe Acrobat Reader — to read the Camera User's Guide, which is a PDF.

City of Heroes Collectible Card Game

The data is then processed into a PDF file which can be printed out and used in official play (including in tournaments).

Clark A. Peterson

Clark Peterson and his old friend Bill Webb formed Necromancer Games in the spring of 2000 to publish role-playing materials using the impending d20 license; on August 10, 2000, the same day Wizards of the Coast was to release the new Player's Handbook at GenCon 33, Peterson and Webb published a free PDF adventure called The Wizard's Amulet just a few minutes after midnight that same day.

Digital mockup

the use of light-weight 3D models with multiple levels of detail using lightweight data structures such as JT XVL and PDF allow engineers to visualize, analyze, and interact with large amounts of product data in real-time on standard desktop computers.

Europass

An example is the web service which enables the remote generation of Europass documents in PDF, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word formats, starting from a Europass XML file.

Fsc2

fsc2 is well documented; the documentation with more than 350 pages in HTML, info, PostScript and PDF format is part of the package, covering all aspects of fsc2, i.e. the graphical interface, the EDL language, device functions and the writing of new device modules etc.

GnuCash

In April 2011, the Minnesota State Bar Association made freely available their GnuCash trust accounting guide in PDF format.

Hawkins Electrical Guide

This series of books is currently available for free, non-commercial use from Google Books and each volume can be downloaded as a PDF, though the illustration scan quality is not as good as the ones being added to Wikipedia on this page by Wikipedia contributors.

Help authoring tool

The output from a HAT can be either a compiled Help file in a format such as WinHelp (*.HLP) or Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (*.CHM), or noncompiled file formats such as Adobe PDF, XML, HTML or JavaHelp.

HelpNDoc

HelpNDoc allows the writer to create a single source text which it then converts to a number of target formats such as HTML Help, PDF, RTF, HTML documentations as well as EPUB and Amazon Kindle compatible E-books.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

IRS tax forms

Additionally, requests may be made via the IRS using Form 4506-A, and PDF copies can often be found online on sites such as Foundation Center's 990 Finder, Guidestar.org and the National Center for Charitable Statistics.

IText

iText provides support for most advanced PDF features such as PKI-based signatures, 40-bit and 128-bit encryption, color correction, Tagged PDF, PDF forms (AcroForms), PDF/X, color management via ICC profiles and barcodes.

Joseph Hendrie

Pdf from Department of Energy.

Journal of Experimental Medicine

An online archive of articles back to 1896 is available in text and PDF formats (material from 1996 and earlier is only available in PDF).

Kembrew McLeod

His book, Freedom of Expression, is available as a free PDF download with a Creative Commons license.

Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti

Formed by the RTI activist Akhil Gogoi in 2005, the organisation works on a diverse range of issues from Public Distribution System (PDF) thefts, non-implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA), land rights, governmental and corporate corruption, Right to Information Act (RTI) and construction of big dams in fragile seismic territories of north east India.

KUNST Magazin

All published editions are accessible in the site archive and almost every edition is available as a PDF-Download.

Murder of Denise Amber Lee

:Note – The following are all formatted in PDF

My Dinosaur Life

The digital deluxe edition includes the bonus tracks and the artwork in PDF form.

Open Reporting Application

Using a standard web browser, ORA enables users to share, print, create, modify and save reports in the popular formats of HTML, PDF and XLS.

Parkinson's Disease Foundation

For example, upon the announcement of President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative to map the human brain, PDF released a statement in which the organization's president, Robin Elliott, praised the initiative and urged the President to include patient advocates directly affected by diseases that impact the brain such as Parkinson's in determining how to move forward with the project.

PCGen

The character sheets can also be exported in various kinds of XML, HTML, and PDF formats.

PDF/UA

In 2012 and 2013 the PDF Association helped raise money and awareness for NV Access's NVDA to further development of the world's first PDF/UA conforming screen reader.

PDFA

PDF Association, organisation that promotes the adoption and use of International Standards related to PDF technology

PDFCreator

PDFCreator can convert to the following file formats: PDF (including PDF/A (1b) and PDF/X (X-3:2002, X-3:2003 and X-4), PNG, JPEG, SVG, TIFF, PS, EPS, TXT, PSD, PCL, BMP, PCX, RAW.

Permabit

Plug-ins are provided by the Albireo SDK to support CFB, PDF, TAR, VHD, and ZIP formats.

Pigment dispersing factor

Pdf has also been studied in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus; studies proved that Pdf is not necessary for generating the circadian rhythm, but involved in control of nocturnal behavior, entrainment, and the fine-tuning of the free-running period of the circadian clock.

Using liquid chromotography in conjunction with several biological assays, PDF, was also isolated in the insect Leucophaea maderae, a cockroach.

Portable Document Format

PAdES, PDF Advanced Electronic Signature

Prinergy

All job information and file metadata are stored in an Oracle database, while content is stored as Adobe PDF or PDF/X, and production control is stored as Adobe Portable Job Ticket Format, or Job Definition Format (JDF).

Project MUSE

MUSE end-users have the capability to search the database and, if affiliated with a subscribing institution, immediately retrieve content in 100% full-text PDF or HTML formats.

Reference card

With the advent of portable electronic devices that can display documents, digital reference cards stored in PDF or HTML formats have become more common.

Rick Prelinger

It is available as a book and as a free PDF from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Smartfax

SmartFax Systems Incorporated is an internet fax provider that allows registered users to send and receive fax messages in digital format (.tiff, .pdf & .ps) via SmartFax's website or users' email addresses.

Syntext Serna

Serna XML Editor offers multi-channel publishing, including out-of-the-box publishing to HTML and external publishing to PDF with FOP, XEP, or Antenna House XSL Formatter.

Publishing to PDF can be done either with FOP out-of-the-box or with Antenna House XSL Formatter.

Tag editor

These are mainly taggers for common audio tagging formats like ID3, APE, and Vorbis comments (for example Windows Media Player and iTunes), but can also be taggers for JPEG, PDF and TIFF metadata (for example iPhoto).

Texinfo

:(Generated via texi2dvi --pdf or texi2pdf.) Based on the PostScript language, this format was developed by Adobe Systems for portable document interchange.

The Christian Science Monitor

The Monitor was one of the first newspapers to put its text online in 1996, and was also one of the first to launch a PDF edition in 2001.

Webtrends

Reports are viewable by various means, most commonly through a web-based graphic user interface or a scheduled emailed export of the report in PDF or csv format.


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