[Framers] OT: The history of PDF
Klaus Daube
frame at daube.ch
Thu Apr 14 12:26:45 PDT 2016
Cleaning out my personal archives, I stumbled across a pdf which I
created from a site:
http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/history/history01.htm
The text has been moved to
http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/history now, but it's the same:
The history of PDF
The first time Adobe actually talked about this technology was at a
Seybold conference in San Jose in 1991. At that time, it was referred
to as 'IPS' which stood for 'Interchange PostScript.'
Version 1.0 of PDF was announced at Comdex Fall in 1992 where the
technology won a 'best of Comdex' award. The tools to create and view
PDF-files, Acrobat, were released in on 15 June 1993. This first
version was of no use for the prepress community. It already featured
internal links and bookmarks and fonts could be embedded but the only
colour space supported was RGB.
Watch the senence «Adobe asked a steep price for the tools to create
PDF files. Acrobat Distiller was available in personal and network
versions, priced at $695 and $2,495 respectively.»
Hm, the older I grow the more I'm interested in history ...
Klaus
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