[detourdog]

I actually was at a Acrobat/PDF launch event in midtown NYC. It was an embedded file type that could be generated at the type of publishing and all dependencies could either be embedded or not.

This made a coherent point in a digital workflow that could be saved and reprinted with ease. This was a big deal before the portable document format came to be.

I once made a workflow that took pdf files from Word, filemaker, excel, and mini-cad. This all got combined into a single 9,000 page pdf. The final pdf had a coherent thumbnails, page numbers and headers and footer.

Only took a couple of hours to get the final documnet after pushing the go buttton.