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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 3, 2026 9 min read

PDF: From the Camelot Project to a Standard for Fixed-Format Documents

How Adobe's Camelot vision became PDF, why fixed-layout exchange mattered, and how a vendor format later entered ISO standardization.

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Tech HistoryDeep Dive October 3, 2026 7 min read

How the W3C XML Working Group reduced SGML's complexity for Web interchange, reached Recommendation status in 1998, and enabled a family of formats.

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