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My expertise is about PDF. THe portable document format created by adobe systems. It is a document file type, one of the most used nowadays to exchange documents online.

PDF documents are currently one of the fundamental pillars underpinning the concept called “Paperless Office”, since without them it would be practically impossible to carry out even half the work done in any trade, industry or activity.

This format, created in the early 90's, but later popularized thanks to the expansion of broadband Internet, was developed by Adobe, and basically its best quality is to contain a document that will be printed or viewed without problems in any computer, smartphone or tablet it runs on, regardless of the sources or resources stored on the device.

To open pdfs you have to download some of the available free readers like adobe acrobat reader. However, if you want to modify the file you have to buy a license. You can also modify the file using microsoft word.

The abbreviation PDF corresponds to Portable File Document, which in Spanish means "Portable Document Format", and is widely used for file sharing, due to the aforementioned multiplatform capacity. This basically means that if a user creates a PDF document in any application on any operating system, the resulting document can be viewed or printed from any Windows, Mac, Android or Linux device without any compatibility issues.

However, the output quality, that is, the print quality, will depend on the type of document in question and the settings that were taken into account when creating it, keep in mind that the quality necessary for a text document that for a printing job at the time of prepress.

Another distinctive feature of PDF documents is that they are compact, mainly due to the compression algorithms that are used at the time of their creation, this means that the size of the files is the minimum necessary.

Also, and perhaps the best advantage of PDF, is that it can contain, in addition to texts and graphics, multimedia elements such as audio and video, hyperlinks and many other options that make its use as flexible as possible.

With the passage of time, the PDF format has been incorporating various security elements, so that its distribution and handling are always well protected.