PDF (disambiguation)

PDF often refers to the Portable Document Format in computing.

PDF, pdf, Pdf, PdF or similar may also refer to:

In mathematics, science, and technology

In biology and medicine

In computing and telecommunications

  • 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
  • Printer Description File, describing capabilities of PostScript printers
  • Profile-directed feedback, a compiler optimization better known as Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO)
  • Program Development Facility, in the IBM z/OS operating system

In mathematics

In physics

Other uses

Organisations

Military

  • Panama Defense Forces
  • Peoples Defence Force (Grenada), the army of Grenada prior to the U.S.-led invasion of 1983
  • Peoples Defence Force (Singapore), a civil reserve element of the Singapore Armed Forces
  • Permanent Defence Forces, the standing branches of Ireland's military

Politics

Arts

gollark: It's not as if we have enough of an understanding of human minds and consciousness and whatever that "sophont" and "free will" and all that are well-defined.
gollark: There was that thing where some scientists put... flies, I think it was, in some environment where they couldn't have much of a population. They did not evolve to have fewer young or something. They evolved to cannibalize each other's young.
gollark: Evolution doesn't really select for the good of the species either, just the propagation of your genes.
gollark: Congratulations!
gollark: Modern high-core-count Intel CPUs will *happily* use hundreds of watts if the configuration allows it.

See also

  • KPDF-CD, a television station in Phoenix, Arizona
  • PDF417, or "portable data file 417", a two-dimesional barcode
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