The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.[1][2] Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, vector graphics, raster images and other information needed to display it. PDF was standardized as ISO 32000 in 2008, and no longer requires any royalties for its implementation.[3]
Flash vs. PDF[]
In 2003, Macromedia acquired Flash Printer from Blue Pacific Software and rebranded it as Macromedia FlashPaper to position it as a competitor to Adobe Acrobat through the use of Flash SWF files as an alternative resolution-independent document format to Adobe's PDF.[4][5] FlashPaper 2 was included with Contribute 3, and Macromedia Studio 8.[6] However, Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia in December 2005,[7] and announced in 2008 that development on FlashPaper was being discontinued.[8]
References[]
- ↑ Adobe Systems Incorporated, PDF Reference, Sixth edition, version 1.23 (53 MB), Nov 2006, p. 33.
- ↑ The Camelot Project (PDF) by John Warnock, Adobe Systems. Planet PDF. 1995-05-05.
- ↑ PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1:2008) Document management — Portable document format — Part 1 (PDF), International Organization for Standardization. 2008-07-01.
- ↑ Flash Printer, Blue Pacific Software. Archived 2004-12-12.
- ↑ Macromedia Contribute 2 product overview, Macromedia. 2003-08-12.
- ↑ Macromedia Contribute 3 key features, Macromedia. 2004-07-20,
- ↑ Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems. 2005-12-05. Archived 2005-12-07.
- ↑ FlashPaper from Adobe (end of development), Adobe Systems. Archived 2008-09-06.
External links[]
- Adobe PDF at Adobe Document Cloud
- Create PDFs with Acrobat (2019-09-19)
- Create PDFs with PDFMaker (Windows) (2019-09-18)
- Using the Adobe PDF printer (2019-09-25)
- PDF reference and Adobe extensions to the PDF specification at Adobe DevNet
- PostScript vs. PDF: Why do we offer two printing technologies? How do they differ? by David Evans at Adobe Systems (archived 2008-05-20)
- Who Created the PDF? at Adobe Blog (2015-06-18)
- Create PDFs with Acrobat (2019-09-19)
- The history of PDF by Laurens Leurs at Prepressure (2017-03-05)
- Refrying PDFs - the good, the bad and the ugly (PDF) by Leonard Rosenthal, Adobe Inc. at Ghent PDF Workgroup (2008-10-25)
- Portable Document Format at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
- PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2:2017) at International Organization for Standardization
- PDF at the Adobe Wiki
- PDF at the Apple Wiki
- PDF and History of the Portable Document Format (PDF) at Wikipedia
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