

Creating a PDF can involve compressing a file, making it take up less storage space. They can be viewed on almost all devices. PDF files aren’t typically created from scratch, but are usually converted, saved or ‘printed’ from other documents or images before sharing, publishing online or storing. It is maintained by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO). The PDF format is now a standard open format that isn’t just available under Adobe Acrobat. The format has evolved to allow for editing and interactive elements like electronic signatures or buttons. It was developed by Adobe so people could share documents regardless of which device, operating system, or software they were using, while preserving the content and formatting. PDF stands for ‘Portable Document Format’ file.

Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop both support editing, with the right plugins installed, whilst Inkscape is a useful free tool that can also be used. SVG files can be viewed in most web browsers, but editing can be more complex. Due to different sized monitor resolutions, a multitude of browsers and devices (phones, tablets and laptops) the SVG format is popular amongst many websites, since the image quality is consistent on all browsers and devices. It's this instruction set that then allows the images to be enlarged and shrunk without any impact to the quality of the graphic. The main feature of the SVG format is that graphics can be scaled to any size without any loss of quality.Ī vector format, SVG files use an XML text based format which details how the image should appear on screen.

The SVG file, or "Scalable Vector Graphics" file was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium in conjunction with Adobe Systems.
