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PDF, Portable Document Format (In French format de document multi-plateforme) object-oriented format .pdf (ISO 32000) developed by Adobe and used within the framework of the document exchange program Acrobat, with which cross-platform documents can be represented in their original typography and appearance. PDF has largely displaced PostScript in the modern output workflow and is adapted there to the general physical conditions of the target printer in that the PDF pages are checked for errors (“preflight check”), imposed in the print format and finally separated in color separation files/prints. See also composite file, PDF/X.