Short for "Portable Document Format," PDF is an open standard format for electronic documentation exchange invented by Adobe. PDF files are used to represent a two-dimensional document in an device- and resolution-independent fixed-layout format. For more about creating print-based outputs, including PDFs, see Print-Based Output.
Main ActivitiesNote Some font families contain bold or italic variants (e.g., the font Georgia has a relative named "Georgia Bold" and another named "Georgia Italic"). If you are generating native Adobe PDF output, bold or italic formatting that is applied to text will display properly in the output ONLY if the font you are using already has a bold or italic font relative. You can determine the availability of such fonts by opening the Fonts folder from the Control Panel in Windows. For example, let's say you open the Fonts folder and see that, in addition to many other fonts, you have the following: Andalus, Angsana New, Angsana New Bold, Angsana New Bold Italic, and Angsana New Italic. If you use Andalus and apply bold or italic to some of the text, that content will not display in bold or italic in PDF output. However, if you use Angsana New and apply bold or italic to some of the text, that content will display in bold or italic in PDF output. The reason for this is that Andalus does not have a bold or italic relative, whereas the Angsana New font does.
Note You can link to PDF files outside of your project by simply creating an external link with absolute path. See Inserting Links to External Files—HTML, PDF, Microsoft Office.
