The use of PDF document has increased tremendously owing to its several features and benefits.
Now PDF has become one of the most used formats to upload, download and transmit files over the Internet.
Although this dramatic rise in popularity may surprise some, it does not surprise those who have been using PDF for quite some time and know the unparalleled advantages that PDF offers.
This articles aims at briefing you with some of these advantages.
PDF documents are portable: PDF or Portable document format, as the name suggests, is a format that is independent of hardware, software or operating system.
This makes them readable on computers running on MAC, Windows, or Linux OS.
PDF documents are optimally sized: While converting any existing format to PDF, the file automatically becomes highly optimized, i.
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it become much smaller in size without losing any quality.
In case you have to send large volumes of PDF files on the internet, you can easily compress them.
Smaller size results in PDF documents being easily uploaded and downloaded.
PDF documents are secure: PDF files have great security features that do not allow just anyone to edit them.
This feature is especially liked by people publishing legal document and research papers on the Internet.
Also, they are not infected by viruses or Trojans.
PDF reading software is free: PDF reader (Adobe reader) can be downloaded free from the Internet.
PDF documents can be easily viewed in most web-browsers: PDF can be easily opened in most web browsers, just click the link that links to a PDF file and the PDF file will open.
The emergence of various PDF converter softwares has further given a boost to the popularity of PDF documents.
Users can now download PDF files and convert them to Word using PDF to Word converters, they can then edit them in Microsoft Word and convert them back to PDF and transmit them on the Internet.
These PDF softwares are affordable and come with easy PDF conversion functionality.