Difference Between PDF and CDF

PDF( Portable Document Format) is associated with the Adobe Acrobat readers who introduced PDF in 1993. PDF is a 2 dimensional file format which is independent of hardware. Software and operating system. CDF(Compound Document Format) is a n electronic file format that was introduced or developed by W3C. CDF as name suggests contains wide range of file formats like PDF, Word etc. CDF was created to ensure that the members had compatibility and agreement in the inception of new standards. Adobe as a parent of PDF file fmat uses 3 technologies to run PDF that is font embedding system, Post Script, and structure storage system whereas CDF supports different file formats like SVG, Xforms, XHTML etc and is backed by the Open Document Foundation. For more details visit: http://www.123fileconvert.com