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My favorite Acrobat thing: pdf started out as a simplification of Postscript, because it turned out that documents don't often need to be turing complete and having them be makes life difficult for WYSIWYG editors. So pdf was lobotomized postscript. Then they did this, doing away with the whole reason pdf existed in the first place. It's not like Postscript couldn't have done the job perfectly well. They just took a very long road to an uglier version of the thing they started with.