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Re:PDF becomes ISO standard by ROFISH on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @03:59PM (#234485)
Adobe's been opening the PDF for awhile. Basic specs have been free for all for awhile. Considering the fact that PDF printing is available as a "value-added" feature in both Office and OS X, this is pretty much the next big step for them.
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Re:PDF becomes ISO standard by Hexstream on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @06:19PM (#234630)
If they don't open up, experience says a new open standard will eat their lunch. Might as well push ahead of the wave (or whatever the proper idiom is).
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Re:PDF becomes ISO standard by etal on Thursday July 03, 2008 @12:22AM (#234879)
Or a pseudo-open one -- Microsoft's XPS format has had some push and was submitted to ECMA not too long ago.
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