SAP expert turns to the proven PDF format for its digital personnel files​

There's a good reason why companies from so many different industries run SAP: It's the functionally most powerful software system on the market for enterprise applications. And by addressing such areas as accounting, material management, controlling and human resources, it covers every business process on one single platform. The SAP application platform can be extended and refined to meet all of a company's needs thanks to add-on software from SAP partner companies. An SAP partner from the city of Walldorf in Baden-Wuerttemberg has optimized its digital personnel file for SAP systems by integrating SoftVision's webPDF solution.

PDF is a format for everyone and so it's high time to give a simple and easy explanation for what PDF is.

Simply successful: The Portable Document Format - called PDF for short - was developed and released by Adobe Systems about 20 years ago. This document format has since become an indispensable asset to the modern digital world in which we live. This file format makes it possible to share documents exactly the way they were originally created, regardless of the application or operating system being used. This capability is best illustrated using the example of a text document. When you create and save a text document as a .doc file in Word, and then open it on another computer with different software, then it often happens that the document appears in the wrong font or with line breaks other than those originally intended.

PDF 2.0 heralds a new generation of PDF. And yet the printing industry is not too keen on celebrating this new platform-independent file format, despite the many promising features it has to offer.

After years of development PDF 2.0 is now ready to go. It has been 20 years since Adobe Systems released the Portable Document Format. Much has happened in the world of digital publishing since that time, whereby PDF has remain what it was always designed to be: a format for electronic documents that always faithfully reproduces these regardless of the operating system being used.