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The rights to the Portable Document Format belong to Adobe. However Adobe has decided to publish the speicifications for this format, and to more or less grant the rights to use these specifications as base for your work. There are some patents involved, but they are, as far as I know, related to the implementation of some features. There should be an "official" statement on the developer section on the Adobe website (http://partners.adobe.com), and, particularly, in the introduction to the Portable Document Format Specification, downloadable from there.
A subset of the Portable Document Format specification, particularly aimed at document interchange for the magazine industry, is part of an ISO standard (that's what we know as PDF-X).
Hope, this can help.
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I am curious about the PDF format. I realize that Adobe is at least a major player but I believe that it must be open to a certain extent so that other companies may be able to create applications to create PDF documents. How would one describe the PDF format? Is it open source? Is it patented?
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