Filename extension .cdf Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) com.wolfram.cdf | Internet media type application/cdf | |
Initial release July 21, 2011 (2011-07-21) Website Computable Document Format | ||
Computable Document Format (CDF) is an electronic document format designed to allow easy authoring of dynamically generated interactive content. CDF is a published public format created by Wolfram Research.
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Features
Computable document format supports GUI elements such as sliders, menus and buttons. Content is updated using embedded computation in response to GUI interaction. Contents can include formatted text, tables, images, sounds and animations. CDF supports Mathematica typesetting and technical notation. Paginated layout, structured drill down layout and slide-show mode are supported. Styles can be controlled using a cascading style sheet.
Reading
CDF files can be read using a proprietary CDF Player with a restrictive license, which can be downloaded free of charge from Wolfram Research.
Authoring
CDF Files can be created using Mathematica. Online authoring tools are planned.
Uses
Computable Document Format has been used in electronic books by Pearson Education, to provide the content for the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, and to add client-side interactivity to Wolfram Alpha.