It was written and produced by Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg from Bloodshy & Avant, with additional writing by Kasia Livingston and Henrik Jonback.
Naposled je leta 2007 različico 1.7 predlagalo Mednarodni organizaciji za standardizacijo, ki je junija 2008 potrdila PDF kot standard ISO 32000-1:2008.