MCQ Detailed View

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It is a widely used file format developed by Adobe Systems in the early 1990s to present documents, including text and images, in a fixed layout format that looks the same on any device or operating system.

The key term here is “portable” — PDF files are designed to be easily shared and viewed without needing the software that originally created the document. Whether the file contains text, tables, images, or even interactive elements like forms and hyperlinks, it maintains its formatting across different devices.

PDFs are commonly used for sharing documents like reports, books, certificates, and forms — especially in official, academic, and corporate settings — because they cannot be edited easily and preserve the layout of the content.