A PDF portfolio is commonly used in advertising and design portfolio systems, as a standard way to recreate physical book layouts in a form that can be emailed to prospective employers. Although not standard practice in other portfolio systems, PDF documents created using Adobe Acrobat allow users to embed image, flash and video files inside the a PDF document. Acrobat also allows users to create a thumbnail image gallery which in turn allows recipients of the document to quickly navigate between samples.
External links
- Using Adobe Acrobat for Electronic Portfolio Development (pdf) A paper by U. of Alaska Professor Helen C. Barrett pertaining to teaching portfolios.
- The Portfolio That Puts You In Charge (pdf) Originally published in Communication Arts March/April 2004. pertaining to teaching portfolios.