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PDF, portable document format, based on PostScript and originally from Adobe, has many subsets.
As well as the 'full function' ISO 32000-1:2008 (or PDF 1.7), there are also PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/VT and PDF/UA, all of which are ISO specifications.
PDF profiles (formalized subsets) include the following:
- PDF/A
- PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1:2005)
- PDF/A-2
- PDF/A-3 (ISO 19005-3:2012)
- PDF/E (ISO 24517-1:2008)
- PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1)
- PDF/VT (ISO 16612-2)
- PDF/X
- PDF/X-1 (ISO 15930-1:2001)
- PDF/X-1a (ISO 15930-4:2003)
- PDF/X-2 (ISO 15930-5:2003)
- PDF/X-3 (ISO 15930-6:2003)
- Tagged PDF
