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C OREL PDF F USION U SER G UIDE
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WHAT IS A DOCUMENT FORMAT OR PDL? INDEX CONTENTS  17 
3.3 What is a document format or PDL?
Corel PDF Fusion supports several document formats sometimes called PDLs (Page
Description Languages). PDLs are the different ways that applications internally describe
the content of documents. Corel PDF Fusion can use the following document formats:
PDF
(Portable Document Format.) A file format created by Adobe Systems
for document exchange. Several versions of PDF are used including v1.3,
v1.4, v1.5, v1.6, and v1.7. PDF files have a file extension of
.pdf.
PDF files can be selected for input to and output from Corel PDF Fusion.
NOTE: Corel PDF Fusion opens documents that are PDF compatible, but not named with a *.pdf
extension. When documents of this type are subsequently saved a .pdf extension is added to the
file name.
PDF/A-1b
A file format designed for the long-term archiving of documents. PDF/A-
1b is a subset of PDF, omitting those PDF features which are not suited
to archiving.
PS
(PostScript language.) A dynamically typed programming language.
PostScript language files are often created in the background when you
“Print to file”. These files have a
.ps file extension. PostScript language files
can be input to Corel PDF Fusion.
Note that
.prn PostScript language files are treated in much the same
way as PostScript language files.
Microsoft Office
These are the formats you create when using Microsoft Office Word,
PowerPoint and Excel applications and have
.doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls
and
.xlsx. file extensions. Microsoft Office files are read by Corel PDF
Fusion. Microsoft Word files can be output from Corel PDF Fusion by
using the Save as or Export option.
XPS v1.0
A fixed-layout document format designed to preserve document fidelity,
based on XML. XPS documents have a
.xps file extension. XPS
documents can be selected for input to and output from Corel PDF
Fusion.
PNG
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format using
lossless data compression. PNG files usually have the extension
.PNG or
.png. PNG files can only be created from Corel PDF Fusion using the
Export option. See “Convert (Export) a document to PNG” on
page 64.