PDF and HTML

PDF

PDF, which means Portable Document Format, is very useful file format for two-dimensional document types. It includes texts, images and fonts. It is developed by Adobe Systems in 1993. We usually use PDF format in our daily life for reading documents on computer and exchanging documents through virtual world.

We can use lots of applications to create PDF documents. Most used ones are:

Office 2007

OpenOffice

Adobe Acrobat

PDF machine

PDF creator

Foxit PDF Creator

PDF Studio

PDFedit

CorelDraw

Adobe Creative Suite

Also we can use some applications to read pdf documents.

Adobe Acrobat

Foxit PDF Reader

Cool PDF Reader

Portable PDF reader devices (some mobile phones)

There are some online websites that work with PDF, convert documents to PDF:

https://online.primopdf.com/

http://www.scribd.com/

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/

http://www.expresspdf.com/

For more information :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

PDF & HTML

Before discussing difference between PDF and HTML we should understand the HTML. HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. It’s a markup language which is used to create and format web pages, not for programming. In another words; HTML documents, which can be put on the internet, describe web pages.

While PDF deals with texts and images; in short contents, HTML usually deals with web pages by aiming to be published on the internet. The main difference between them is their purpose of usage. We noticed that PDF is a kind of document before. HTML is a device that we use to build web pages. In some senses they might work for same goals. For instance; if we read from web page which is written in the HTML, there won’t be any difference between reading PDF document and html document. But while we are reading PDF documents we can take notes and mark important sentences. We have relation with only the document which we read. On the contrary; we just read HTML documents and we interact some other contents like advertising and so on.

One another difference between PDF and HTML is their audience. Everybody can create, convert and read PDF documents easily by using simple applications. When it comes to HTML, it needs more ability to understanding how to write HTML documents. Programmers and web masters use HTML to build web pages productively.