[Framers] OT: The history of PDF

[Robert Lauriston]

I reviewed Acrobat 1.0 in 1993. I wonder if I have a copy around
somewhere? I know I ridiculed Adobe for thinking they could sell the
reader. At one point they were trying to get customers to use PDFs on
CD-ROMs and they wanted something like $7 for each disc that bundled
the reader.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Klaus Daube <frame at daube.ch> wrote:
>    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 ...