“I don’t know how many people actually know what PDF stands for, but you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the world who doesn’t know what a PDF is.” That’s the view taken by Leonard Rosenthol, senior principal scientist and PDF architect at Adobe, when looking back at the longevity of the hugely popular file format.
He has worked on PDF for three decades and suggests that those three letters have become synonymous with having a “usefulness for everyone”, even in a world where the next big thing in technology usually takes over.
