Computable Document Format

Computable Document Format
Computable Document Format
Filename extension .cdf
Internet media type application/cdf
Uniform Type Identifier com.wolfram.cdf
Developed by Wolfram Research
Initial release July 21, 2011 (2011-07-21)
Website Computable Document Format

Computable Document Format (CDF) is an electronic document format[1] designed to allow easy authoring[2] of dynamically generated interactive content. It was created by Wolfram Research.

Contents

Features

Computable document format supports GUI elements such as sliders, menus and buttons. Content is updated using embedded computation in response to GUI interaction. Contents can include formatted text, tables, images, sounds and animations. CDF supports Mathematica typesetting and technical notation.[3] Paginated layout, structured drill down layout and slide-show mode are supported. Styles can be controlled using a cascading style sheet.

Reading

CDF files can be read using a free CDF Player which can be downloaded from Wolfram Research. In contrast to static formats such as PDF and pre-generated interactive content provided by formats such as Adobe Flash the CDF Player contains an entire runtime library of Mathematica allowing document content to be generated in response to user interaction using any algorithms or visualizations which can be described in Mathematica.[4][5] This makes it particularly suited to scientific, engineering and other technical content[6] and digital textbooks.[7]

CDF reader support is available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux but not for ebooks or tablets. The reader supports a plugin mode for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, which allows CDF content to be embedded inline in HTML pages.

Authoring

CDF Files can be created using Mathematica. Online authoring tools are planned.[8]

Uses

Computable Document Format has been used in electronic books by Pearson Education,[9][10] to provide the content for The Wolfram Demonstrations Project, and to add client-side interactivity to Wolfram Alpha.[11][12]

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