John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82
“The PDF was the result of Dr. Warnock’s abiding obsession since graduate school: finding a way to ensure that the graphics displayed on one computer — whether words or images — looked the exact same on another computer, or on a page from a printer, regardless of the manufacturer.
“It had been a holy grail in computer science to figure out how to communicate documents,” he said in a 2019 interview with Oxford University.
Clay Risen, reporting for The New York Times
Hard to think of another industry that has benefited from the PDF more than real estate. From forms to CMAs and everything in between. Thank you John.
