User:Ssstephen/Reading/Near Print and Beyond Paper
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PDfs variously partake of the form and fixity of print that other digital text formats frequently do not.
The “look of printedness,” as I have called it, has been separated from paper and mobilized online, even in the process of producing printed books.
[PDFs] render
Its just a normal PDF.
Finally, and at Adobe’s instigation, PDf 1.7 was adopted as an open standard by the International Standards Organization in 2008
This would be interesting to study further as an event, what is the context, who were the actors, what were their motivations.
The fixity of print
the New York Times Information Bank—another fascinating, short-lived experiment—tried the same kind of thing, but fiche retrieval proved so unreliable that eventually “a person wearing white gloves pulled fiche on demand” and positioned it in front of a video camera.