Interesting. One by one the proprietary formats fall (although PDF was much less like this than others). It's kind of like a game of high-tech gin. Whoever's left holding the proprietary standards at the end of round loses.
Tarage On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Carl Young wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________ 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
