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Will NOF allow information to be digitised using PDF as opposed to HTML?

April 26, 2017digitised html nof PDF

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Will NOF allow information to be digitised using PDF as opposed to HTML?

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PDF (Portable Document Format) is a proprietary file format owned by Adobe, see . The format preserves the fonts, formatting, colours and graphics of the source document. PDF files are compact and can be viewed and printed with the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader. As with any proprietary solution there are dangers in adopting it as a solution: there is no guarantee that readers will remain free in the long term, readers (and authoring tools) may only be available on popular platforms, the future of the format would be uncertain if the company went out of business, was taken over, etc. Other limitations of PDF include difficulties in defining the structure of documents (as opposed to the appearance), providing hyperlinking, and providing universal access to viewers with old or specialist browsers. PDF does, however, have the advantage of being easy to create and preserving the appearance of source documents. The recommended open