[Framers] OT: The history of PDF

[Peter Gold]

Thanks for the note and updated link, Klaus.

Around 1995, I worked for a Silicon Valley Sun Computer and FrameMaker
reseller, who presented an "introducing Adobe Acrobat" sales event to its
A-list high-tech enterprise customers. Charles Gesche, one of the Adobe
founders, was the keynote speaker.

Yes, the Acrobat suite of products then was expensive, but our large
customers saw value in being able to automate the conversion of their
mountains of legacy documents, created in a variety of formats, into PDF,
and gain some order and control over their existing documentation chaos.

I asked our CEO if he thought that after the expected initial sales and the
rush to process all the legacy materials, if there would be much of a
continuing Acrobat market. "Once a customer invests in a large-capacity
software conversion system that doesn't wear out, why buy more?" He told me
to "ask Chuck." Chuck said, "I have no idea. It's early."

Over time, it seems that Adobe did figure it out

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Klaus Daube <frame at daube.ch> wrote:
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   Hm, the older I grow the more I'm interested in history ...
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>    Klaus
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