Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)
On Saturday 13 December 2003 03:08 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> Oops. Hrm, I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe
> and freely usable, but google seems to disagree. It references some old
> links from the adobe site, but they seem to have been removed.
PDF 5.x is supposed to contain the same document encryption
technology that everyone gets so steamed about MS doing with
the DOC format. There are good reasons for distrusting that.
It would be conceivable to call PDF 4 an open standard, since
Ghostscript can already handle it. But we really ought to make
a distinction, since the newer versions are incompatible.
This is equally true of DOC format, too, though. We *could* adopt
some prior version of it as a standard, seeing as several open
word processors can handle them already.
I'd rather see something like the OASIS standard
http://lwn.net/Articles/16043/ work, though.
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com
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