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The best format for document delivery depends on what you’re doing with the document. To create and edit a document, Microsoft Word can be an appropriate format. However, this is not necessarily the best format for dissemination of documents. | Information Management Resource Kit Module on Management of Electronic Documents UNIT 2. FORMATS FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS AND IMAGES LESSON 4. PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT PDF NOTE Please note that this PDF version does not have the interactive features offered through the IMARK courseware such as exercises with feedback pop-ups animations etc. We recommend that you take the lesson using the interactive courseware environment and use the PDF version for printing the lesson and to use as a reference after you have completed the course. FAO 2003 2. Formats for electronic documents and images - 4. Portable document format pdf - page 1 Objectives At the end of this lesson you will be able to understand when to use PDF format understand the main features of PDF and understand the difference between PDF and embedded TIFF. When to use PDF I am creating my document using ị MS Word but I have some doubts I about which format to use for its J Í dissemination. i The best format for document delivery depends on what you re doing with the document. To create and edit a document Microsoft Word can be an appropriate format. However this is not necessarily the best format for dissemination of documents. 2. Formats for electronic documents and images - 4. Portable document format pdf - page 2 When to use PDF People have to be able to read and print the document. Therefore the document must display correctly regardless of the software and hardware being used. Portable Document Format PDF is a procedural mark-up language that allows page-formatted documents to be viewed and printed in their original page layout on almost any software platform. PDF is the most common format for exchanging documents where the page format of the original document must be preserved. What is PDF The PDF mark-up language is based on an image model whereby a document contains a set of pages which are described by three main object types Path objects contain a description of a set of points and the way they are