Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat was the first software to support Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format. It is mostly described in those entries. The Acrobat Reader program is available as a no-charge download from Adobe's web site, and allows the viewing and printing of PDF documents. The full Acrobat program allows some minimal editing and adding of features to PDF files, and comes with two other modules: the PDFwriter printer driver to create PDF files, and the Distiller program to turn PostScript files or print streams into PDF files.In the early 1990s, the Acrobat product had several competitors such as Common Ground from No Hands Software. These each used their own document formats.
By the late 90s PDF had become the de facto standard, and the others had become largely historical footnotes. The chief advantage is one can see more than one page in a single document ( what one cannot do in HTML files).
Today, there are a host of third-party programs that create or manipulate PDF, such as Enfocus Pitstop.
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