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John Warnock, Who Invented the PDF and Co-Founded Adobe Systems, Dies at Age 82
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| Aug 21, 2023
Posted on 08/21/2023 6:06:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I guess his grave stone won't be able to be changed?
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:09:52 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: nickcarraway
RIP, sir.
Adobe tools benefited me greatly over the years. They really pushed the graphics industry forward. Acrobat was genius for prepress, yet also for home use.
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:19:40 PM PDT
by
avenir
("For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form"!)
To: nickcarraway
Hat tip to one of the tech pioneers of the past fifty years
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:26:25 PM PDT
by
newzjunkey
("Listless vessel" -- We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
To: avenir
Adobe and PK ZIP are unsung heroes in the rise of the internet.
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:28:33 PM PDT
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DoodleBob
(Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
To: nickcarraway
PDFs were one of the most important implementations on the web. The cool thing about them is that they can be streamed out as they’re being built and then wrapped up at the end.
At one time I had read the entire PDF spec from cover to cover and can still navigate the text versions of PDFs.
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:31:45 PM PDT
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glorgau
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:36:11 PM PDT
by
nwrep
To: glorgau
PDF is amazingly simple and graceful in its design.
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:37:04 PM PDT
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nwrep
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:37:11 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: nickcarraway
Adobe really changed printing and computing.
John, thanks for the Bézier curves. They gave us infinite resolution, to what any device could produce.
Your typefaces were always the bomb.
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:40:38 PM PDT
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ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: glorgau
PDFs were one of the most important implementations on the web.
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:42:22 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:53:28 PM PDT
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angelrod
To: nickcarraway
I have never seen the code underneath any Adobe product, but my experience with them says the code is likely elegant in simplicity. That does not necessarily mean the code is “short”, just, no matter how long, a lot shorter than it could have unnecssarily been.
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:54:51 PM PDT
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Wuli
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posted on
08/21/2023 6:55:23 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
To: nickcarraway
To: Nervous Tick
To: nickcarraway
I have always hated adobe software. PDFs are a useful format, but overall, the company just seems to suck.
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posted on
08/21/2023 8:18:40 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
To: nickcarraway
Adobe made computers much easier to use in the late 1980’s. PDF’s are great as well as Typekit, Photoshop and Illustrator. Wonderful programs.
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posted on
08/21/2023 9:48:33 PM PDT
by
Falconspeed
("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
To: ConservativeMind
“Your typefaces were always the bomb.”
Truth! Another area they brought fully into the digital realm.
I used to love the quality PS Type 1 fonts they’d bundle with each major upgrade of Illustrator. I built quite a collection just through that.
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posted on
08/21/2023 9:55:25 PM PDT
by
avenir
("For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form"!)
To: glorgau
Nearly a decade later, Warnock outlined an early version of the Portable Document Format, or PDF Well, it's a shame he had to die for me to find out what PDF stood for.
RIP John Warnock
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posted on
08/22/2023 12:27:16 AM PDT
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dr_lew2
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