PDF – The World’s Digital Document [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Our infographic today comes from Nitro PDF and it illustrates how PDF files are becoming more common in our everyday lives. For example, travel tickets are nearly always emailed to you now as a PDF file, which makes it easy to back them up onto a USB stick. Or theatre & concert tickets for a musician or other performer. PDF has replaced paper in many respects as the new big boy on the block and there’s no turning back.

What do you think? Is PDF the format of the future? Or do you see another file format rising up and taking over?  Do you think paper is gradually becoming extinct in favour of PDF?  Let us know what you think in the comments.

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PDF The World's Digital Document

Infographic Source: Nitro PDF

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  1. Sumaiya
    September 13, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    i love pdfs...theyre easy and convenient to use and the most important thing to me: they support images :)

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  2. Jessica Tirta
    March 29, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    Hello Mark!

    Interesting infographic you have here. I have a piece of content (infographic) that I think you might be interested in. I searched for your email, but couldn't find it anywhere on the web. Do you have an email I can reach you?

    thanks in advance!

    Best,
    Jessica

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    • Mark O'Neill
      March 30, 2012 at 9:20 am

      Hi yes, it's mark AT makeuseof.com .

      Reply
      • Jessica Tirta
        March 30, 2012 at 11:19 pm

        Perfect, thanks Mark! Just sent you an email :)

        Reply
  3. Desdemona
    March 28, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    PDFs are literal pains to use on anything except full size monitors. With so many people seeming to opt for tablets and netbooks, I see less use in the future rather than more.

    PDFs are great for forms and will handle scientific notation better than other formats in some respects. But as other formats improve (and particularly as ebook readers proliferate) I see the use of pdf diminishing, not increasing.

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    • Mark O'Neill
      March 30, 2012 at 9:21 am

      I agree that epub files are better for things like e-books but I find PDF's to be quite pleasant reading on my iPad. Much better than Word files which are an absolute nightmare.

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