| The modern world has taken huge leaps and bounds | | | | of papers. Paper documents require courier costs in |
| in all spheres of life. It has made tremendous | | | | delivering a message or document. The paper |
| improvements in technology and alleviated the life of | | | | documents also require printing expenditure, |
| mankind. This progress has brought with itself many | | | | maintenance costs and other such costs. |
| adverse changes. The development in science and | | | | Office papers require photocopiers, printers, faxing, |
| technology has affected the geographical environment | | | | copying and scanning. The shipping of the office |
| of the earth drastically. Environment pollution is one | | | | papers consumes time and other resources of an |
| such problems being faced by mankind. However, | | | | organization. No such costs are involved with the use |
| computer technology has introduced applications and | | | | of PDF files. The PDF format has compression |
| programs to contribute to the reduction in | | | | algorithms that squeeze the file size making it |
| environmental pollution. Portable Document Format is | | | | transferable. The original layout in the PDF document |
| one of these applications that have been developed to | | | | remains intact even while transferring the file through |
| reduce the paper work. It was introduced by Adobe in | | | | emails. While sending office papers there are chances |
| 1993 with an aim to introduce "paperless office." | | | | of papers getting spoiled or damaged in transportation. |
| How does PDF help in promoting green and clean | | | | A PDF also supports hyperlinks, bookmarks and |
| environment? A Portable Document Format is a | | | | multimedia elements. This provides a viewer with extra |
| non-editable format that integrates maximum amount | | | | information and makes a file visually appealing. |
| of information in a document. It is a format that is easily | | | | The office papers can accommodate only limited |
| transmittable from one computer system to another. It | | | | amount of information. If it includes extensive |
| is portable in nature as one can have access to this | | | | information then the pdf to word document becomes |
| format on any system with different configuration. This | | | | bulky and difficult to manage. |
| feature of PDF file is useful as compared to the use | | | | |
