PDF Creator vs PDF Viewer

PDF, shorts for Portable Document Format, is an open standard file format developed by Adobe Systems to represent 2D document. Being an open standard file format meaning that anyone may develop application to read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems.

PDF is both device independent and resolution independent as it doesn't encode information which is specific to software, hardware, or operating system used to create and view the document. This feature makes a valid PDF file rendering exactly the same regardless of its origin or destination.

Related information:

• Adobe Reader is the freeware version of PDF viewer provided by Adobe System to view PDF document.
  
  
• PDFCreator is an open source program distributed under GPL GNU license. Don't get it wrong, PDFCreator is not a program that able to edit PDF file as Adobe Acrobat which cost over hundreds pound.
  
  PDFCreator is a PDF creator, a PDF writer, a PDF maker, a PDF printer, a document-to-PDF converter, etc, but not a PDF editor!
  
  PDFCreator works exactly like a legacy ASCII file printer device. PDFCreator convert a document to PDF file format when the document is "printed". For example, after finish editing a nice resume in Microsoft Word 2003, click on the print function, select the PDFCreator as the target printer, turn on some great PDF file security features and password encrypted protection, press print button, and finally getting a soft copy of resume in PDF file format.
  
  Why need to convert Word document to PDF? Besides the points at the top of this article, email both Word and PDF version of resume may make the recruiter more choice to read the resume, that the recipients may not using Microsoft Office at all!
  
  
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