Portable Document Format (PDF)

Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF was developed by the Adobe Corporation to allow the exchange and viewing of electronic documents easily and reliably, independent of the environment in which they were created. This format lets you compress large documents to a size small enough to download very quickly. It is also becoming a powerful format for reproducing documents over the web.

For a PDF file, you have the option of loading it at the following bits per pixel: 1, 2, 4, 8, 24.

For a PDF file, you can write the following bits per pixel: 1, 2, 4, 8, 24.