Adobe has always released the specifications of PDF and anybody is free to implement it. Yes, Adobe does charge for their Acrobat Professional suite, but it's hardly required. There are scads of PDF-capable apps out there. Heck, OS X works with PDF as a native subsystem. In no cases do you have to pay any sort of royalty or sign any agreement with Adobe to implement it.
To sum: 1. Specification widely available... Check2. Anybody can implement the spec royalty and patent free (now that the LZW patent has expired)... Check
3. Documents in PDF format are pervasively and inescapably common... Check 4. A multitude of 3rd party reader and writers for PDF... CheckIf that's not a standard, then we have very different ideas on what a standard is. :-)
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No more than windows is a 'standard' I believe. It IS wide spread, but with the exception of the windoze reader, adobe charges, but the ability to implement apparently is NOT infringement or all the major distro's would be being sued by Adobe. So IF that is what makes it a standard, then so be it. My quarter cent worth. Ed --- Chris Gehlker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On May 24, 2008, at 2:36 PM, der.hans wrote:by Adobe, butIs PDF a standard? I thought PDF was owned and runthey were allowing 3rd party implementation.Wikipedia says it's a standard:<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>
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