On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:21:53PM +0100, Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design wrote: > > It's a commercial development by Adobe and nothing else as far as I know. > > Yes PDF is very similar to Flash in that it is a proprietary development by a > commercial company.
Another similarity is that they are open standards, in the sense in which e.g. Sun uses this term: while defined by a single vendor, their specifications are publically available, and last time I checked could in fact be freely downloaded from the Web. -- Reinier Post
