This makes it a popular choice for sharing and printing documents, as it ensures that the document will look the same on any device. 'PDF (Portable Document Format) is a widely used file format that is designed to preserve the layout, text, and images of a document, regardless of the software, hardware, or operating system used to create it. But you'll have to tweak typography and page setup so it doesn't look too different. And it's expensive.Īs u/Alvaro_Hanzo suggested, you could try creating a modified PDF page and replacing the faulty one in your document with some PDF split/merge program.
I had to use it years ago and it delivered, but there was a learning curve. The only good editor I know of is Adobe's Acrobat ( not the free Acrobat Reader). Now you probably see that editing a PDF is akin to reverse-engineering some software. When you open a PDF the interpreter/reader 'just' computes the pages for you. As every byte counted then that language is Forth-like. So in a way it's similar to SVG, but internally based on PostScript a page description language from 40 years ago. PDF is actually meant to be a sealed container, providing impeccable typography (with embedded fonts even) and vector graphics, internal links and so on. It was awesome in its time and old habits die hard. Why does the world use this insane file format?
