PDFPoint

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Why PDF?

Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a platform-independent, format-preserving way of distributing documents, particularly across the Internet. By using PDFPoint, which uses PDF as its presentation output format, you can give your slides to colleagues or customers without the need for them to have the latest copy of the software. Almost anyone can read a PDF, as Acrobat Reader (the most common PDF viewer) is commonplace on most computers.

PDF is also a ratified standard, not a proprietary format, so a PDF that you generate today is guaranteed to run, and look the same, tomorrow or in the next generation of viewer. A major disadvantage of using a proprietary format is that you can never be sure that other people will be able to view your slides, even if you give them the file; with PDFPoint, even people still using Windows 3.1 or those running Mac OS, Linux and other operating systems can read the file.

PDFPoint files are also extremely small; a typical *.pdp file is less than 5KB, and PDFs can frequently beat 10KB. Compare this to a PowerPoint presentation or a picture of a slide, and it becomes obvious why PDFPoint’s files are much more email and Internet friendly.

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