PDF will only be used for archiving documents in future
If I think of what I find PDFs being used for these days, only the need to archive documents stops PDF from becoming obsolete. Cinema or theatre tickets, airline tickets are both going to be superseded by apps or a 2D barcode sent by email. Utility bills / bank statements, tax returns are all usefully downloadable in PDF. Some big corporate websites seem to offer a downloadable version of their web pages as PDF, perhaps that would useful 10 years ago before browsers could save as PDF.
I remember seeing an advert for a competitor product to Acrobat in a US MacWorld in about 1993 - there was a bloated and rotund man in a leotard (mocking an Acrobat) splattered in mud as if he had fallen down during a circus routine. Can anyone name it? Google doesn't help my nostalgic trip down memory lane!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
