Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Different versions of PDF file format

The PDF(portable document format) is the file format which ensure users that information transferred on the Internet is with best security. As PDF is the only file format on which we can apply password. Moreover, the pdf can be used on different platforms or OS's. There is no issue regarding pdf files or documents if we want to share our ideas to everyone through PDF file format.
Below are some different version of PDF file format:-
1. One of the Pdf file format version is 1.6 which is released in November 2004.
2. The different version of pdf file format defines different feature in each version. Like PDF 1.4 is provided with Pdf tags which helped users in accessing pdf files or documents more easily.
3. For archiving you will find different versions like (PDF/A).
4. PDF-X1a defines “exchange of print-ready pages”.

The above mentioned are some of the different versions of Adobe pdf file format. There is simple concept regarding this that subtract 1 from the current Acrobat version and put the result after decimal you will find the PDF file format version.
For example, Acrobat version is 7 and minus 1 results in 6. So, here we get PDF 1.6 which can be read by Acrobat 7.
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