The Progression of PDF
Discover the progression of the PDF file format from its inception in the early 1990s to the modern ISO-certified versions. Learn about significant milestones, version updates, and how PDF evolved to support features like encryption, 3D data, annotations, and more. This lesson provides a clear timeline and understanding of PDF's growth pivotal to efficient document management with Python.
Introduction
The PDF took shape from the concept of the paperless office that was popular at the start of the 1990’s.
Thirty years ago, Dr. John Warnock in collaboration with his team, sought to fix the following problem: “The inability to exchange information between machines, between systems, between users in a way to guarantee that the interchanged file would look the same everywhere it went.”
Dr. John Warnock, the Adobe co-founder, paved the ground towards resolving the aforementioned problem in a memo dated 1991, in the Camelot Report, where he delineated the idea for the PDF.
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