

A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents. The PDF combines three technologies: A subset of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics. The TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, and by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications. TIFF is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry and photographers. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Application/pdf, application/x-pdf, application/x-bzpdf, application/x-gzpdf
