Just an informational piece for those that might be interested....
Tom Teper
Adobe announced yesterday that it will release the PDF specification for submission to the ISO for maintenance as an open standard. This is good news re: long-term sustainability for all of us who have used it over the years as a vendor-maintained _de facto_ standard, albeit one that has an open/published specification and has been closely linked to such actual ISO standards as PDF/A* (PDF/Archive). The Adobe press release is at:
< http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/ 200701/012907OpenPDFAIIM.html>
And Slashdot has a summary, further links, and discussion at:
<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1114228>
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