PDFify

English

Alternative forms

  • PDF-ify

Etymology

From PDF +‎ -ify.

Verb

PDFify (third-person singular simple present PDFifies, present participle PDFifying, simple past and past participle PDFified)

  1. (transitive, computing, rare) To convert (a file) to PDF format.
    Synonym: PDFize
    • 2003 July 24, Lord Usher, “Re: Sides Spoilers, Ep. 1, S5 New!”, in alt.tv.angel‎[1] (Usenet):
      I can see why that might've been true back in the day of the manually-typed screenplay, but now that it's all on computer anyway, isn't it just as easy to print up or PDFify exactly the block of text you want -- with the irrelevant bits before and after taken out?
    • 2011, Reginald Abbott, “Preface”, in Reginald Abbott, Michael Hall, Hank Eidson, editors, The Polishing Cloth, 15th edition, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page vii:
      Handwritten, real paper essays are now converted to PDF files and are sent out through the ether to solitary scorers to be read on dim computer screens. […] I vehemently oppose any suggestion to do away with the Regents’ Examination, I decry the gradual lowering of Regents’ standards to which I have been a witness for over thirty years, and I reject with much conviction the computerized/PDFified scoring of Regents’ Essays.
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