[Framers] OT: The history of PDF

[Pat Christenson]

Necessity is the mother of "finding the money somehow."

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From: Craig, Alison [mailto:acraig at bkultrasound.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 4:03 PM
To: Pat Christenson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: [Framers] OT: The history of PDF

Wow - $695 in 1993!

That rivals the $700 I spent on HP's first laser printer at about the same time. (It printed in black at a whopping 300 dpi.)

Were we rich or stupid? ;-))))) 

Alison


Technical Documentation Specialist
BK Ultrasound | acraig at bkultrasound.com | bkultrasound.com


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From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+acraig=bkultrasound.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Pat Christenson
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 1:57 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] OT: The history of PDF

Ouch. I remember buying the personal version.

Pat Christenson

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From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+pat.christenson=morningstar.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Daube
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 2:27 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] OT: The history of PDF

   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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