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| [[Category:Techniques]]
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| '''PDF''' is [[Adobe]]'s proprietary "Portable Document Format". The format preserves the exact layout of text and images put in it while allowing device-independent display and printing.
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| Adobe provides a free reader ("Acrobat Reader") for the format, but charges significant money for the full "Acrobat" program which can write the format. [[FOSS]] programs such as [[OpenOffice]] can export in PDF format albeit not always perfectly. There are also FOSS programs available for reading PDF -- necessary especially in the Linux world, as Adobe does not provide Acrobat Reader for Linux.
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| The following FOSS applications are available for reading PDFs in Linux (and they all open faster than Acrobat Reader):
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| * xpdf (very bare-bones)
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| * kpdf
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| * KGhostView
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