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Re:It's been 30 years. Shouldn't PDF become open source give... by PaulHoule on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:02PM (#38647201)
PDF has been an ISO standard for a long time (Adobe never would have gotten as much buy in for PDF if it wasn't.) Normally you have to pay 133 CHF for an ISO standard document (... like the technical report I wrote that disappeared somewhere between the committee and the editors ...) but you can download the spec for free here

https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandard...

There are all kinds of open source implementations

https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat

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