This was posted on HN a while back and has some interesting bits of history and context: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-w

This was posted on HN a while back and has some interesting bits of history and context: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-worlds-most-important-file-format https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-sec... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19819789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19819789