Thursday, November 1, 2007
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Wisdom of the PDF Sage
Leonard Rosenthol’s thoughts on all things PDF
History of PDF Openness
I thought I would put together a bit of a timeline that covers the history of PDF as an open/published standard, both from Adobe as well as from ISO. After I put that together, I thought it would be interesting to include dates for key open source and other independent implementations of PDF, so I’ve added those as well.
Leonard Rosenthol is the Technical Standards Evangelist for Adobe Systems that focuses on PDF Standards. In this role, he serves as technical expert for the U.S. delegation to ISO TC171 and TC130
PDF Timeline
1993
June: Adobe publishes the original PDF Reference (as a printed book by Addison Wesley) following the release of Acrobat 1.0
1994
October: Ghostscript 3.20 (beta) “contains some support for a PDF interpreter”
November: Adobe publishes PDF Reference 1.1
1995
January: Ghostscript 3.23 (beta) is the first release to include “a largely working PDF reader”
June: CGATS hosts the first meeting to discuss the use of PDF for prepress exchange, what will become PDF/X.
December: First public release of Xpdf
1996
November: Adobe publishes PDF Reference 1.2
1997
September: First public release of PDFlib
1998
December: First public release of iText
1999
April: Adobe publishes PDF Reference 1.3
November: PDF/X-1 becomes an ANSI standard
2000
March: First meeting of ISO TC130 for PDF/X
September: Submission of PDF/X-3 to ISO
September: Apple releases Mac OS X Public Beta
2001
April: Adobe publishes PDF Reference 1.4
April: ISO 15930-1 (PDF/X-1a) is adopted
2002
September: ISO 15930-3 (PDF/X-3) is adopted
October: AIIM hosts the first meeting to discuss the use of PDF for long term archival storage, what will become PDF/A.
2003
May: Adobe publishes PDF Reference 1.5
October: First meeting of ISO TC171 for PDF/A
2004
March: AIIM hosts the first meeting to discuss the use of PDF for use in engineering workflows, what will become PDF/E
December: Adobe publishes PDF Reference 1.6
2005
January: First meeting of AIIM working group for PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility)
June: First ISO meeting for PDF/E
October: ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A) is adopted
2006
October: Adobe publishes PDF Reference 1.7
2007
January: Adobe announces their intent to submit PDF 1.7 to ISO
Other PDF History Links
Adobe’s PDF History site (which has a neat graphic timeline on it)
Interesting 3rd party view of PDF/Acrobat history
pdf adobe acrobat history
source : http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/history-of-pdf-openness/
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Its very interesting to know about History of Adobe Acrobat and to include dates for key open source and other independent implementations of PDF.Thanks for the sharing information.I was searching for this.Can you share some more links realted to this.
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