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Adobe Liquid Mode: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 | TIME

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PDF documents are fine—as long as you’re viewing them on large screens. But the thousands of people trying to view official documents or fill out PDF forms on mobile devices are stuck pinching and zooming to try to navigate. Adobe, the company that invented the PDF, knows how frustrating this is, and has an AI-powered solution. Liquid Mode, which is now built into its Acrobat Reader software, uses an algorithm to resize PDFs to fit whatever device you’re reading on, and allows font resizing and search. “Initially we flirted with the idea of an all-new format,” says Phil Ydens, fellow and vice president of Adobe Document Cloud, “but quickly concluded that PDF was too ubiquitous and important. That’s worth solving the right way.” CONTACT US AT LETTERS@TIME.COM. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy p

PDF documents are fine—as long as you’re viewing them on large screens. But the thousands of people trying to view official documents or fill out PDF forms on mobile devices are stuck pinching and zooming to try to navigate. Adobe, the company that invented the PDF, knows how frustrating this is, and has an AI-powered solution. Liquid Mode, which is now built into its Acrobat Reader software, uses an algorithm to resize PDFs to fit whatever device you’re reading on, and allows font resizing and search. “Initially we flirted with the idea of an all-new format,” says Phil Ydens, fellow and vice

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