PDFify

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verb

To convert (a file) to PDF format.

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

present singular third person PDFifies · participle present PDFifying · participle past PDFified · past PDFified · alternative PDF-ify

  1. raretransitivecomputingTo convert (a file) to PDF format.

    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?

    2003 July 24, Lord Usher, “Re: Sides Spoilers, Ep. 1, S5 New!”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet)
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    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.

    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

    Synonyms: PDFize

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verbTo convert (a file) to PDF format.

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APA

PDFify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/PDFify

MLA

“PDFify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/PDFify. Accessed November 2, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “PDFify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/PDFify.

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