Name | DXF | |
Full name | PDF - Portable Document Format | DXF - Drawing Interchange Format |
File extension | .dxf | |
MIME type | application/pdf, application/x-pdf, application/x-bzpdf, application/x-gzpdf | image/vnd.dxf |
Developed by | Adobe Systems | Autodesk |
Type of format | Document format | CAD |
Description | The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. | AutoCAD DXF (Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format) is a CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. Versions of AutoCAD from Release 10 and up support both ASCII and binary forms of DXF. Earlier versions support only ASCII. |
Technical details | The PDF combines three technologies: A subset of the PostScript page description programming language, for generating the layout and graphics. A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents. A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content into a single file, with data compression where appropriate. | As AutoCAD has become more powerful, supporting more complex object types, DXF has become less useful. Certain object types, including ACIS solids and regions, are not documented. DXF coordinates are always without dimensions so that the reader or user needs to know the drawing unit or has to extract it from the textual comments in the sheets. |
File conversion | PDF conversion | DXF conversion |
Associated programs | Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, Foxit Reader, Ghostscript. | AutoCAD |
Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD_DXF |