Object | Description | ||
Document | This object creates or reads a document as input and writes either PDF (which may be read again) or PostScript (which may not be re-read) as output. | ||
Page | This term denotes a single side of a single sheet of media. Among its properties, a page may be moved from one document to another or re-sequenced within a document, and annotations may be added or removed. | ||
Container | Provides structural grouping | ||
Graphical | Variety of objects which make a mark on the page, such as Text, Lines, Backgrounds and Pictures | ||
Path | Mechanism for creating arbitrary line drawings with PDF | ||
Image | Renders graphics for PDF | ||
Form | An arbitrarily complex collection of other graphic operators which may be positioned and scaled freely | ||
Bookmark | A collection of bookmark operators acts like a Table of Contents with live links in electronic display | ||
Thread | Within a document, collects non-contiguous elements into a stream | ||
Font | Describes a specific font and encoding needed to image text | ||
Thumbnail | A low-resolution bitmap of a page used to identify the contents of a page |