Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format that shows a document with the same layout on every device. It is an ISO standard (ISO 32000).
Format Features
- Fixed page layout with text, images and vector graphics
- Embedded fonts
- Links, forms and annotations
- Optional password protection
PDF in Filestack
- Convert documents and images to PDF with
output=format:pdf - Merge files into one PDF with
pdfcreate - Read document details with
pdfinfo - Convert pages to images with
doc_to_images - Preview PDFs in the browser with the Document Viewer
Conversions in This Glossary
- BMP to PDF
- WebP to PDF
Related terms
PDF Conversion
Processing API tasks that read, merge, convert and split PDF documents.
Document Viewer
In-browser rendering component for multiple file types.
DOCX (Word Document)
Microsoft Word’s XML-based document format supporting rich text and multimedia content.
More in File Formats
AI (Adobe Illustrator)AVIFBMP (Bitmap)DOCX (Word Document)GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container)HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format)JPEG/JPGMP4PDFPNG (Portable Network Graphics)PSD (Photoshop Document)RTF (Rich Text Format)SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)TXT (Plain Text)WebP
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