Adobe decided to charge a bundle for the PDF creation software (Adobe Acrobat) and give away the software to read, but not edit, the files (Acrobat Reader). The first decision was made in the mid-to-late 1990s, at the start of the internet boom.
The primary reason for PDF’s ubiquity in our lives comes from two business decisions Adobe, PDF’s creator, made 15-25 years ago. Even in our personal lives, PDFs are ubiquitous: appliance instruction manuals, new car brochures, bank statements, etc. The PDF format’s great attraction is that it reproduces electronically exactly what a printed document looks like. And it does so across any device – smartphone, iPad, computer, TV, etc.
By Jeffrey Schoenberger, Affinity ConsultingĪs a legal professional, you have encountered your fair share of PDF files and assumably created more than a few.
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