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Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

application/pdf

Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .PDF files (Portable Document Format).

File Extension

.pdf

Content-Type Header

application/pdf

Format Category

Documents

Standard Specification

RFC 8118 / ISO 32000-2

Description & Usage

Adobe resolution-independent document container format.

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

# Nginx mime.types configuration for .pdf
types {
    application/pdf    pdf;
}

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS

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Preguntas frecuentes

Respuestas claras a las preguntas más habituales.

The official MIME content type for .pdf files is "application/pdf". Web servers use this header to instruct browsers how to render or process .pdf data.