Portable Document Format (PDF)

An industry-proven solution to digital document conversion that is quickly becoming the defacto choice is PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (.pdf) . Documents with nearly any content — text, graphics, photographs ... even movies — can be converted into the cross-platform, user-friendly Portable Document Format. Whether your PC runs on MS-DOS, Windows, OS-2, MAC, or Sun/UNIX, you can distribute your .pdf documents among them all, retaining all of your content, format, fonts, and graphics ... and more!

No matter what format your documents are in now - printed on paper, or digital in any of the popular word-processing, presentation or page-layout applications - DAPS Philadelphia can convert them to .pdf.

Beyond cross-platform compatibility, value-added features of .pdf documents include hotlinking within individual documents, and among document collections. For example, we can make your Table of Contents live, to allow you to go to any specific chapter or section of your document with a simple mouse-click. Graphics can be linked to the text that discusses them. The high number of links possible within any one document allows for effortless navigation, no matter what the document's size. The highly intuitive on-screen tools you use to navigate are the same, no matter what the document or who created it. And we provide the Acrobat Reader* software with every conversion order!

PDF files are also considerably smaller than the original document. This is because during the conversion process we leave all the font baggage behind, while leaving the original font "look." In this way, .pdf documents remain truly WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

PDF is Web-friendly

PDF documents can be viewed directly within Web browser windows that are fully compatible with Netscape Navigator V.3.0* or Internet Explorer V.3.0* (the two most popular, in other words!) by simply installing the Reader plug-in. Since the relative cross-document hotlinks work unchanged on the Web, you can publish a collection of hyperlinked .pdf files on local drives, CD-ROM, or a Web server, and all links will work in all locations.

The high-quality search and hotlink capabilities, coupled with WYSIWYG document conversion are what caused DAPS to adopt .pdf as its premier format for conversion to CD-ROM. Our customers have unlimited and cost-effective access to their data via this simple yet powerful package.

Advantages of PDF

• Cross-platform compatibility
• WYSIWYG conversion
• Hyperlinking
• Small file size
• Create from any source application
• Converted documents remain visually rich
• Other dynamic controls (menu functions, sounds, even movies)
• Viewable within leading Web browsers

More Advantages

• PDF files print with consistent quality and accuracy, at the maximum resolution of any printer.
• DAPS Philadelphia can create .pdf interactive FORMS from your originals, allowing you to retain your corporate identity on your intranet or Website. Anyone with Acrobat Reader* freeware can view, fill in, print, and submit these forms electronically.
• We can publish your .pdf document collections on a variety of media, including diskette and CD-ROM.
• PDF conversion handles color, greyscale and black & white documents with equal ease.
• We accept documents for conversion both on plain paper and in a variety of digital formats.

Freeware!

Adobe Acrobat Reader* is the software program that allows any .pdf document to be viewed, downloaded and printed. It is freeware, and is available in versions to work with every major operating system. If you haven’t already received a copy in a recent Adobe product upgrade, or Reader isn't already a plug-in on your web browser, you can download the Acrobat Reader plug-in from the Adobe Systems Homepage (www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html) .

Interested?

Call our DAPS Customer Service staff at: (215)-697-DAPS for more information.

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