PDF 2.0 - Portable Document Format 2.0

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Portable Document Format is a platform-independent format for representing formatted documents, originally developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. PDF 2.0 is standardised by ISO 32000-2. A PDF file comprises a Header section, a Body section containing the objects which make up the document, a Cross Reference Table, and a Trailer section. PDF files can contain a wide variety of content, including text, images, video and audio.

Identify it

Extensions	`.pdf`
MIME types	`application/pdf`
Signatures	`255044462d322e30` at byte 0
PRONOM	`fmt/1129`
Wikidata	`Q55429627`
Library of Congress	`fdd000474`

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AudiverisOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
AvogadroOpen sourcewrites · 3-clause BSD License
CC PDF ConverterOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
CeltxOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License
DendroscopeOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
DokielOpen sourcewrites · CeCILL / GNU General Public License, version 3.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0 / Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
dvipdfmxOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
Eclipse ChemClipseOpen sourcewrites · Eclipse Public License
GigaMeshOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
GIMPOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
GNOME PlannerOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
gscan2pdfOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
Integrated Genome BrowserOpen sourcewrites · Common Public License
KarbonOpen sourcewrites · GNU Lesser General Public License
LibreOfficeOpen sourcewrites · MPL-2.0
LibreOfficeOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
LibreOffice DrawOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
librsvgOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License / GNU General Public License, version 2.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License / GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0
MatplotlibOpen sourcewrites · Matplotlib license
MuPDFOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0 or later
NtEdOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
OCRmyPDFOpen sourcereads and writes · Expat license / Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
OpaleOpen sourcereads and writes · CeCILL / GNU General Public License, version 3.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0 / Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
OpenOffice WriterOpen sourcewrites · GNU Lesser General Public License
OrbadaOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
PandocOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
PdfcpuOpen sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0
PDFCreatorOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
PDFeditOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
pdfjamOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
pdfTeXOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
phpMyAdminOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
PLplotOpen sourcewrites · GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0 or later
PotraceOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
Q141647662Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q141647664Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q141674354Open sourcewrites · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q141674391Open sourcewrites · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q2025399Open sourcewrites · Eclipse Public License 2.0

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Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pdf out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pdf out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pdf out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pdf out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pdf out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

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