On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Ron Skeoch wrote:
>
> PDF: proprietary Abode format
The specification for PDF is open. The spec _is_ copyright Adobe, but so
are the TIFF and Postscript specs. The spec has statements in it about
being allowed to use Adobe IP to develop implementations of PDF, Adobe
merely remains the steering body -- in the same was as for TIFF and
Postscript.
Mikal
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