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> PDF provided more fidelity for printing, had better tooling

This might have been true once, but using Acrobat now is so painful. Of all the apps that work, Apples Preview is my editor of choice and when I’m on Windows I really miss it.

[manv1]

Well before nobody actually dealt with PDFs directly; they exported it out of FrameMaker or whatever tool they used to compose stuff (ie: print-to-pdf).

Acrobat has always been a really bad PDF editor. I'm not sure why that is, exactly, since their other editing tools were basically industry standard for a long time. All the interactive stuff like fillable forms, etc are probably incredibly hard to build.