Adobe Moves to Make PDF a Formal Standard
Adobe Moves to Make PDF a Formal Standard
by , 12:35 PM EST, January 29th, 2007
Adobe plans to turn over the Portable Document Format 1.7 specification for approval as a formal ISO standard. PDF is already the de facto standard for cross-platform document exchange, and after it receives final approval will become an official standard, as well.
The specifications will be submitted to the Enterprise Content Management Association so that any potential issues can be addressed before presentation to the International Organization for Standardization. Once approved, the standardized PDF specification will be available to companies that want to incorporate it into their own products.
Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect at Adobe, commented "By releasing the full PDF specification for ISO standardization, we are reinforcing our commitment to openness. As governments and organizations increasingly request open formats, maintenance of the PDF specification by an external and participatory organization will help continue to drive innovation and expand the rich PDF ecosystem that has evolved over the past 15 years."
Adobe already allows developers to create PDF-compatible products, but in 2006 reached a stand-off with Microsoft over the use of the technology in the new version of Office for Windows. Microsoft later pulled its built-in PDF support from the Office suite.
By creating an official PDF standard, Adobe will likely be able to avoid run-ins like the one it had with Microsoft in the future. The change could also potentially allow Apple to add enhanced PDF features into upcoming versions of Mac OS X.
Observer Comments
Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:05 pm Subject: still can't replace a word processor
QuoteTiger wrote:
PDF is useless when it comes to word processing and publication prepress. It's great for sharing images and forms, but don't try creating in it. Ick.
You can't really create in PDF. I love PDF, my printer loves to receive PDF because of the embedded fonts and all of that, but yes even fixing a typo or homophone is a bit of a chore. If I have the original document I usually make the edits there and then distill a new PDF.
Has anyone here upgraded to Acrobat 8? If so how do you like it? I have the Acrobat 8 Reader, but am still using Acrobat 7 Pro. I think that I will wait until CS3 and get the whole shebang.
Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:10 pm Subject: Homophones destroy the institution of page layout
QuoteGuest wrote:QuoteEdison Carter wrote:
but yes even fixing a typo or homophone
Is that a pink phone that rings by playing "It's raining men"?
Words that that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings:
To, too, and two are homophones. A spell checker usually will not flag them, but they often find their way into a document.
Eye tolled the sexton and thee sexton told the belle.
Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:23 pm Subject: Editing with a pencil
QuoteRainy Day wrote:QuoteEdison Carter wrote:QuoteGuest wrote:
I Use Faber-Castell 2.0!
Shouldn't that be “I use a Faber-Castell 2Hâ€
Ha ha! Too funny! I’ll bet that goes over the head of 80% of the folks here, though.
Actually for all I know Faber-Castell 2.0 is a software package:)
I started this career back in the early '60s setting movable type in a composing stick. It was a small shop that did mostly business cards, stationery (not "stationary" which would be a homophone), posters, brochures, forms, and such, not books, magazines, newspapers. We did use pencils to edit, nowadays I like to use the comment feature in Acrobat, easier than reading someone's scribble.
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