PDF is a file format used to exchange documents in text or image form, regardless of the ‘software’, ‘hardware’ or operating systems of any application.
in 1993 Adobe Systems Inc. The company created this tool considering the difficulties of sending and viewing documents presented at that time. Between Windows and Apple computers.
The problem was that the two systems used different file formats, as if they spoke different languages. Users had to perform some sort of splitting of the document. “An old computer dialect called ASCII that reduces information to basic text and number characters.”
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In this sense, the Mountain View company in California, designed a tool that can keep the document integrated on either operating system without the need to completely separate its content and design.
“Aim Anyone could take a document from any application and send an electronic version. Adobe says on its official portal that “in addition to viewing those documents wherever you want, you can also view and print them from any machine.”
Within the scope of the ‘Camelot Project’ work plan, Adobe co-founder John Warnock, who died in August this year, “started the revolution that marked the transition from paper to digital format” without affecting any element within it.
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Among the advantages of the company We managed to combine everything into one file via Adobe Postscript formatCurrently maintained application for viewing documents.
Until then, it could only be visualized and compressed by reducing its weight. Even though it wasn’t possible to edit and was limited to reading only, this was a huge advantage.
Functions very different from existing ones, You can sign, change the necessary information, such as pointing with colors on a virtual document and writing with a digital pen.
However, there is no doubt that the invention of this tool has great benefits and supports the permanence of updates and improvements over time.
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