Anthony is correct - PDF is now an open format (as of July 1, 2008): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
-- Brett Johnson simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not intimately familiar with pdf, but I don't think it is actually > proprietary, and it is favorable to genuinely proprietary formats. I > believe it just formalizes Postscript conventions. Contrary to flash, > etc., Adobe actually published (at least) the first two Postscript specs > openly, in book format. I remember pouring over those books when I was > first bitten by the programming languages bug. Also, I'm > assuming/guessing/hoping that most postscript interpreters would sandbox > document evaluation. All-in-all, I'd say PDF is a pretty friendly > format, ASCII is certainly appropriate for email, but on the other hand > don't spread FUD. > > -- > Anthony Carrico > >
