{"id":7636,"date":"2018-06-15T08:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T12:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uniprint.net\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2018-07-17T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T13:31:23","slug":"pdf-old-digital-world-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uniprint.net\/en\/pdf-old-digital-world-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF Solutions: How the PDF is the old digital world made new again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When was the last time you opened a PDF document? Chances are, not too long ago at all!<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s digital world, the shift from hard copies to digital media is as apparent as ever.<\/p>\n
With books, magazines, journals, and all sorts of written and graphic information being digitized, the PDF has established itself as a leader in this industry-changing era.<\/p>\n
Origins of the PDF: When did it all begin?<\/h3>\n
Looking back at the origins of what we now know as the PDF, it all began in the early 1980\u2019s with Adobe co-founder, John Warnock, describing what he believed was the need of the time, a simple document format for all industries.<\/p>\n
Further explaining this concept, in his essay entitled \u201cThe Camelot Project\u201d, he mentions, \u201cWhat industries badly need is a universal way to communicate documents across a wide variety of machine configurations, operating systems and communication networks. These documents should be viewable on any display and should be printable on any modern printers. If this problem can be solved, then the fundamental way people work will change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acting on this vision of his, Warnock released PostScript in the mid 80\u2019s, an industry-changing page description programming language, allowing for digital files to maintain their original appearance even after being printed.<\/p>\n
The new cost saving solution rapidly established itself as Adobe\u2019s core product.<\/p>\n
With the goal of optimizing efficiency across a variety of platforms, Warnock and his team at Adobe continued updating and modifying the PostScript language.<\/p>\n
In 1991, an updated version of PostScript was released, soon to be rebranded as the PDF!<\/p>\n
More than a decade later, the PDF was released by Adobe as an open standard, gaining International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification in 2008.<\/p>\n