Saturday, January 7, 2012

PDF (Portable Document format) easy to use and easy to get corrupted

PDF (Portable Document format) easy to use and easy to get corrupted

In the present scenario, PDF (Portable Document format) serve versatile purposes for computer users when data sharing has become so important for the success of professionals as well as organizations, PDF files are becoming more and more popular day by day. The growing popularity of the PDF files can be accredited to the portability and compatibility features attached to the Adobe Acrobat. Therefore, more and more documents/files are being shared across the network in PDF format. Like any other computer application or data file, the much protected PDF files are also prone to error and corruption. Due to corruption, the PDF files become's inaccessible,

Therefore, whenever you try to open any corrupt PDF file, the error messages that are most likely to occur. The most common problems with the PDF files are that you see blank pages in the PDF files and another problem is that you see only the textual format in the PDF file, the graphics and multimedia content are not visible. The basic design of how graphics are represented in PDF is very similar to that of PostScript, except for the use of transparency, which was added in PDF………………..the PDF graphics use a device independent Cartesian coordinate system to describe the surface of a page. A PDF page description can use a matrix to scale, rotate, or skew graphical elements. A key concept in PDF is that of the graphics state, which is a collection of graphical parameters that may be changed, saved, and restored by a page description.