PDF (disambiguation)

PDF (disambiguation)

PDF is most commonly used to refer to a type of Portable Document Format in computing.

Other uses include:

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In education

  • Postdoctoral fellow

In fiction

  • Planetary Defence Force in the Warhammer 40,000 universe

In the military

  • Panama Defense Forces
  • P.D.F. (upper case) is an abbreviation of "Permanent Defence Forces" - the standing branches of the Irish Defence Forces
  • Peoples Defence Force (Grenada), the army of Grenada prior to the US led invasion in 1983
  • Peoples Defence Force (Singapore), a civil reserve element of the Singapore Armed Forces

In politics

In science and mathematics

In software

  • Package Definition File (System Center Configuration Manager)
  • Page Description File, used in variable data publishing
  • Pop Directional Formatting, Unicode character U+202C, a formatting character that cancels a previous bi-directional formatting character on the same line in plain text
  • Portable Document Format (also known as "Portable Display Format")
  • Printer Description File, files created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript printers

Additional uses

  • KPDF-CA, a television station in Phoenix, Arizona
  • PDF417, a 2D barcode - PDF means Portable Data File
  • PDF Solutions, a listed company headquartered in San Jose, California
  • Peace Development Fund, a non-profit public foundation based in Amherst, Massachusetts
  • Peak draw force in a Compound bow in Archery
  • Playa del Fuego, a Delaware art festival
  • PdF, short for Poder de Fogo (Portuguese for "Firepower"), a stat in the Brazilian roleplaying game system 3D&T

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