For those of you producing PDFs, Adobe's announcement today that they are turning over PDF to ISO should be very good news. No longer will Adobe be the one deciding what goes into the PDF specification, but a standards body will. The situation with PDF will be like other standards, such as TIFF and JPEG. Right now Adobe owns PDF but publishes the specification for all to use.
The bad news is ISO moves more slowly than Adobe, so we are likely to see changes much more slowly than in the past. Note: Adobe is not turning Acrobat and Reader over to ISO, just the PDF file format. Adobe will sit on the ISO committee and ask that it begin by accepting the current 1.7 specification, but after that it is up to the ISO committee to define PDF and its subsets, such as PDF/A. The blog entries cited below have links to all the official documents. http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/ http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2007/01/a_new_door_opens_for_pdf.html http://blogs.adobe.com/loridefurio/2007/01/pdf_spec_releas.html http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/history-of-pdf-openness/ If you respond to any of these blog entries, please let them know Carl Young sent you. I am just trying to score good behavior points with Adobe. -------------------------------------------------- Carl Young www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/pdftrainer www.pdftrain.com www.pdfconference.com -------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. DITA West 2007--Use a discount code of "TECHCOMMPROS" to get a discount rate of $200 off the $900 registration price. http://www.travelthepath.com/conf/dita2007.shtml _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
