PDF is a standard?

[eculbert]

Agree 100 percent. Only 'stupids' pay for adobe any
more..  Stupid being the 'uninformed' that there
exists freebies.


--- Kurt Granroth <kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com>
wrote:

> PDF is an "ad hoc" standard right now.  It is on the
> path to being an 
> official standard (ISO 32000) but it's not there
> yet.  Honestly, saying 
> it's not a standard because it doesn't have an ISO
> code attached to it 
> is nit-picking to an extreme.
> 
> Adobe has always released the specifications of PDF
> and anybody is free 
> to implement it.  Yes, Adobe does charge for their
> Acrobat Professional 
> suite, but it's hardly required.  There are scads of
> PDF-capable apps 
> out there.  Heck, OS X works with PDF as a native
> subsystem.  In no 
> cases do you have to pay any sort of royalty or sign
> any agreement with 
> Adobe to implement it.
> 
> To sum:
> 1. Specification widely available... Check
> 2. Anybody can implement the spec royalty and patent
> free (now that the 
> LZW patent has expired)... Check
> 3. Documents in PDF format are pervasively and
> inescapably common... Check
> 4. A multitude of 3rd party reader and writers for
> PDF... Check
> 
> If that's not a standard, then we have very
> different ideas on what a 
> standard is. :-)
> 
> eculbert wrote:
> > No more than windows is a 'standard' I believe. It
> IS
> > wide spread, but with the exception of the windoze
> > reader, adobe charges, but the ability to
> implement
> > apparently is NOT infringement or all the major
> > distro's would be being sued by Adobe. So IF that
> is
> > what makes it a standard, then so be it.
> > 
> > My quarter cent worth.
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
> > --- Chris Gehlker <canyonrat at mac.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On May 24, 2008, at 2:36 PM, der.hans wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is PDF a standard? I thought PDF was owned and
> run
> >> by Adobe, but  
> >>> they were
> >>> allowing 3rd party implementation.
> >> Wikipedia says it's a standard:
> >>
> >
>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>
> 
> 
> >
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