The difference between pdf and word

The differences between pdf and word are: different format technology, different reading impression and different editing methods.

1, different format technologies

The main technology of pdf consists of three categories: subset derived from PostScript page description language, font embedding/replacing system and structured storage system. Moreover, PDF is a file in picture format, and the format and content of general PDF documents are fixed.

Word is a file format, there is no unified standardization, and the detailed data of its file format is not disclosed.

2. Differences in reading perception.

PDF supports stepless magnification (vector format), and the graphics in PDF format cannot be edited, and most PDF browsers cannot edit them.

Because Word has format compatibility problems in different versions, it may lead to different edited layouts, so it is not as good as PDF in perception.

3. Edit differences

PDF can only be edited with a few softwares such as acrobat provided by Adobe, which is not as convenient as Word.

Word is easier to edit than PDF.

Advantages and application occasions of PDF

PDF full name (portable document format), translated into portable document format, is an electronic file format. This file format has nothing to do with the operating system platform, that is, PDF files are common in Windows, Unix and Apple's Mac OS operating systems. This performance makes it an ideal document format for electronic document distribution and digital information dissemination on the Internet.

More and more e-books, product descriptions, company announcements, online materials and e-mails begin to use PDF files. PDF file is based on PostScript language image model, which can ensure accurate colors and accurate printing results on any printer. PDF will faithfully reproduce every character, color and image of the manuscript.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Portable File Format Baidu Encyclopedia-Microsoft Office Word.