Luigi
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 6:12 PM Frank Mittelbach
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that mean never then. It is an iso standard and iso standards are to be
paid for. 1.7 was an exception as that was published as a draft still
under the Adobe flag. Maybe that needs then some sponsor so that at
least one copy could be bought for you, say.
https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html
<https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html>
those are only a small subset, the pdf standard is not among them, is
it? So, yes I should have said *most* iso standards are to be paid for.
It is here:
https://www.iso.org/standard/75839.html
and it is more expensive than I remembered, somewhat in the ball park of
$250 per copy, but still I think the community should be able to afford
that, if that is what it takes.
We do have a good chance to outrun a lot of the commercial applications
when producing PDF from TeX (or rather luatex) but it is a little
hampered if one has looses, e.g., transparency in graphics, if one sets
the pdf version to 2
frank
