Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page

Re:Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page by djmips on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:55AM (#26325831)

Fascinating. So PD in PDF came from Postscript distiller? All these years... I did not know that.

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Re:Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page by kragen on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:29PM (#26331626)

Sounds like an unanswerable question; it would be surprising if anyone reliably remembered earlier expansions for the initialism. Distiller remains an Adobe product.

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Re:Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page by jecel on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @02:53PM (#26333478)

The official name when PDF was launched as "Portable Document Format". I have no idea if that was a "backronym" for some internal project name.

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Re:Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page by kragen on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:26PM (#26345208)

Exactly.

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