These documents could be viewed on any machine and any selected document could be printed locally. ![]() In his paper which led to the development of PDF, John Warnock wrote: ‘Imagine being able to send full text and graphics documents (newspapers, magazine articles, technical manuals, etc.) over electronic mail distribution networks. Initially, it was an internal project at Adobe to create a file format so documents could be spread throughout the company and displayed on any computer using any operating system. PDF started off on the dream of a paperless office, as the pet project of one of Adobe’s founders, John Warnock. Remember that buzz word that never seems to vanish completely even though history has proven that the use of computers has until now only lead to an increase in the use of paper? ![]() ![]() A separate page gives a more general overview of the history of prepress. This page provides an overview of the evolution of PDF, the Portable Document Format, and the matching Adobe Acrobat software.
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