Before Adobe’s introduction of Acrobat to the world in 1993, sharing documents with coworkers & friends was… CHALLENGING!
The “P” in PDF stands for PORTABLE – beyond appropriate.
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Thanks, Dave, for including the historic video. I remember sending documents that arrived scrambled because the client didn’t have the font I used.
I felt so smart when I figured out a workaround.
Having Acrobat and sending files that arrived with layout intact made me feel like the electronic elite. I saved money on couriers who went back and forth between the designer in the Art Department and the commercial printer.
Is Art Department the right name?
My favorite Adobe Acrobat feature was “watched folders.” When a new file was placed in the inbox of a watched folder, Distiller generated the Acrobat file, indexed it for fast retrieval, and placed it in the outbox. Pretty nifty for finding lost documents, especially since our file names were brief and enigmatic.
I searched Help and discovered that “watched folders” feature is still available, a more complex, definitely on the geeky side, but still there.
Sally Smith