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Before PDF: John Warnock's 'Camelot'

Posted by timothy on from the quest-for-the-holy-grail dept.

Karl De Abrew writes: "In the Spring of 1991 Dr. John Warnock wrote a paper he dubbed "Camelot" in which the Adobe Systems Co-founder and CEO laid out the foundation for what has become Acrobat/PDF. With the author's permission, Planet PDF is pleased to publish the full-text of that historic document." Of course, now it's 2002, and the dream of universal display / printing remains only partly realized; PDFs really have helped to narrow the gap between dream and reality, though.

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  1. I assume, by Stone+Rhino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that the paper will be made available in Portable Document Format?

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  2. Re:About the post by rixster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a terrible day. I've just read the K5 stuff about it, and I have to agree that a site is supposed to be a "community" site, then it should be run by the community, (as it is suggests), and not by the eds. deciding to -1 you all the time. I guess this post will live for a few seconds before I start burning karma. FWIW, this may be my last post.
    Goodbye /.

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