PDF is an initialism (versus an acronym, which is slightly different...) for "Portable Document Format", a file format created by Adobe [http://www.adobe.com/].
[CL] maintains a page
[http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.pdf/PDF.html]
on the subject.

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While there are relatively few direct Tcl-PDF connections as
of late 2001, "pdf417_encode [http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdf417_encode/] converts ASCII strings into pdf417 [barcode]".

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 What: TEItools
 Where: http://xtalk.price.ru/SGML/TEItools/
 Description: Collection of Tcl and other tool scripts used for
        transforming SGML documents to various other formats.  Currently
        supports HTML, LaTeX2e, RTF, PS, and PDF.  Uses CoST.
 Updated: 04/1998
 Contact: mailto:boris@xtalk.msk.su

 What:  WELD
 Where: http://www.javafoundry.com/javapdf
 Description: Web Enabled Logic Documents (WELD) make use of Jacl/Tcl to
        provide the ability to hold WWW applications together.  WELD is
        a part of JavaPDF (the open source servlet utilities project).
 Updated: 08/2001
 Contact: mailto:lhall@JavaFoundry.com (Lee T  Hall)

 What: pdflib
 Where: http://www.pdflib.com/
 Description: PDFLib is an ANSI C library for creating new PDF files.
        Bindings for a number of languages, including Tcl, are available.
        This package is not designed to access and update existing PDF
        files.
 Updated: 11/1999
 Contact: mailto:tm@muc.de




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[Sven Sass]'s employer generates PDF by way of [Java] classes
converting [Docbook] to [FO] to PDF (!).





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