A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps]

Re:A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps] by __sdegutis on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:39PM (#17887445)

It's a bit strange that this is a .ps file, which Chrome didn't natively turn into a PDF for me. So I converted it to a PDF and hosted it at https://sdegutis.com/ll.pdf for anyone's convenience.

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Re:A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps] by jandrese on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:11PM (#17887681)

It's from 1996--back when PDF was proprietary and non Windows support was inconsistent.

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Re:A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps] by exikyut on Friday August 31, 2018 @08:20PM (#17889387)

I'm only vaguely aware of the de-proprietary-ization of PDF; I remember at some point the market was flooded with print-to-PDF software, and commentary that this was happening because of something had somehow changed.

What happened?

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Re:A Universal Scripting Framework (1996) [ps] by jandrese on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:51PM (#17889878)

Adobe made the file format open source to spur adoption. It worked.

Make no mistake, there were a good number of PDFs floating around before that point. It was pretty much immediately popular, but they were kind of a hassle for everybody not running Windows. There were programs to display them like xpdf, but they weren't bug compatible and lived in a legal grey area. Everything got a lot better once Adobe released the rights on the format.

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