Re: "Acrobat file" vs. "PDF file"

Skot Nelson <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:43:28 -0700

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I didn't get the impression they thought I was taking nonsense, but I appreciate the vigorous defence.

I do think there was a time when PDF was synonymous with Acrobat...I think that time has long passed.

I don't think that's happened yet with Word files. Perhaps if Openoffice is adopted more widely one day we'll refer to them as word processing documents, but for now there's a pretty close correlation.

I haven't researched that, mind you. A gut feeling.
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On 2011-09-26, at 9:59, Matthew Dull <[email protected]> wrote:

> reader to view PDFs".  So many users can
> easily link the words PDF, Adobe, and Acrobat together.  It's similar

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