PDF document format
Formato PDF
- Date
- 1993 · confidence high
- Place
- Adobe, Mountain View, California, United States
- Credited to
- John Warnock and Adobe (Project Camelot)
- People
- 👤 John Warnock1940–2023
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A format that reproduces a document with identical appearance on any device, with embedded fonts. It is the digital paper of government, science and business.
What it led to
- E-government and the digital signing of documents
- The distribution of scientific papers and academic literature online
- Long-term digital archiving
Built on
Made possible
- E-ink and e-reader (Kindle)1997-2007
- electronic signature
- e-government
- e-books