Hi all, Perhaps of interest to many on mcn-l, Adobe announced yesterday that it will release the PDF specification for submission to the ISO for maintenance as an open standard. This is good news re: long-term sustainability for all of us who have used it over the years as a vendor-maintained _de facto_ standard, albeit one that has an open/published specification and has been closely linked to such actual ISO standards as PDF/A* (PDF/Archive). The Adobe press release is at:
<http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200701/012907OpenPDFAIIM.html> And Slashdot has a summary, further links, and discussion at: <http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1114228> cheers, Rob *On PDF/A, see <http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?id=25013> and <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000125.shtml> -- _________________________________________________________________ Rob Lancefield rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
