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Beschreibung
Portable Document Format (PDF) ist ein Dateiformat, das von Adobe in den 1990er Jahren entwickelt wurde, um Dokumente, einschließlich Text und Bilder, zu präsentieren.

PDF basiert auf der PostScript Sprache, die ein vektorbasiertes Format zur Beschreibung von Seiten ist. In diesem Sinne ähnelt es SVG, da es die Skalierung einer Zeichnung auf jede beliebige Größe ermöglicht, ohne dass sie ihre Form oder Menge an Details verliert.

Nevertheless, a PDF can contain many things, including text, fonts, vector graphics, and bitmap images. PDF was standardized as an open format in 2008, as ISO 32000.

PDF is commonly used as a sharing format, that is, to share documents, text, or images, that will display and print exactly as the author intended.

Anwendung
As FreeCAD is based on the Qt graphical toolkit, it can export the 3D view natively to PDF. This can be useful to export carefully created drawings that other users don't need to modify. For example, pages created with the TechDraw Workbench can be exported in this way for sharing or printing. In many cases it is also possible to perform two way conversion between PDF and SVG.

The option to export to PDF is available in the menu.

Verwandt
Two commands directly related to the PDF format in FreeCAD are:


 * Std_Export: exports selected objects to a different file format. Many file formats are supported and for some formats multiple export options exist. See Import Export for more information.
 * Std_PrintPdf: primarily intended to create PDF files from TechDraw Workbench pages, but can also be used to create a PDF from what is currently visible in the 3D view.

Scripting
For power users, there is an option to utilize the Python console to export a PDF.