There was no way no create a pdf file with a Mac back in 1993. It didn't take off until Acrobat 3 a few years later, and then you couldn't make decent pdfs unle

There was no way no create a pdf file with a Mac back in 1993. It didn't take off until Acrobat 3 a few years later, and then you couldn't make decent pdfs unless you bought Acrobat 4 and use Distiller. You'd typically share your doc (or whatever) files, and if you wanted portability you'd use PostScript. Which still is a better format if you have to make changes at the very last stage before printing. Ordinary users just couldn't make pdfs without paying for additional publishing software until some ten years ago. The lesson is that some formats become de facto standards, then people forget how that happened (and that it could happen again), and ignore better technical solutions for specific jobs.