How Important Is Acrobat 5?--McIlroy

Attractive Acrobat
The PDF format has been a fascinating anomaly. Designed originally purely as an electronic format, it found some of its first and biggest adherents among print publishers attracted to its compactness, completeness and relative reliability. As HTML usage exploded on the Web, PDF suddenly seemed too tightly controlled and a tad overweight in the free-form world of (loosely) structured text tagging.