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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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