PDF, or Portable Document Format, is a file format used to present documents.

PDF, pdf, or PDF file may also refer to:

Computing and telecommunications

  • Pop Directional Formatting (Unicode character U+202C), a formatting character in bi-directional formatting
  • Printer description file, describing capabilities of PostScript printers
  • Profile-directed feedback, a compiler optimization better known as Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO)
  • Program Development Facility, in the IBM z/OS operating system
  • Powder Diffraction File

Mathematics

  • Pair distribution function
  • Probability density function
  • Probability distribution function (disambiguation)

Organisations

  • Parkinson's Disease Foundation, a medical foundation
  • PDF Solutions, a company based in San Jose, California
  • Peace Development Fund, a non-profit public foundation based in Amherst, Massachusetts

Military

  • Panama Defense Forces
  • People's Defence Force (Myanmar), armed wing of the Burmese government-in-exile since 2021
  • People's Defence Force (Singapore)
  • Permanent Defence Forces, the standing branches of Ireland's military
  • Popular Defense Forces (Gaza), a militant group in Gaza
  • Popular Defence Forces (Sudan), a paramilitary group in Sudan
  • Puntland Dervish Force, Armed force of Puntland

Politics

  • Parti de la France
  • People's Democratic Front (Hyderabad), a political party that existed in India during the early 1950s
  • Progressive Democratic Front (Andhra Pradesh), a political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
  • Party of Progress (Germany) (Partei des Fortschritts), a political party in Germany founded in 2020
  • People's Democratic Front (Burma)
  • People's Democratic Front (Indonesia)
  • People's Democratic Front (Iran)
  • People's Democratic Front (Meghalaya), India
  • People's Democratic Front (Romania)
  • Popular Democratic Front (Italy)

Other uses

  • PDF (gene), a gene that in humans encodes the enzyme peptide deformylase
  • Palladium fluoride (PdF), a series of chemical compounds
  • Parton distribution function, in particle physics
  • Peak draw force, in a compound bow in archery
  • Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
  • Pigment dispersing factor, in biology
  • Planar deformation features, in geology
  • Playa del Fuego, a Delaware art festival
  • Postdoctoral fellow
  • PDF file, a euphemism of pedophile

See also

  • KPDF-CD, a television station in Phoenix, Arizona
  • PDF417, or "portable data file 417", a two-dimensional barcode