Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adobe portable document format, version 1.3 / Adobe Systems Incorporated. — 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-201-61588-6
1. Text processing (Computer science). 2. Adobe Acrobat. 3. Portable document
software. I. Adobe Systems.
QA76.76.T49 A36 2000
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