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Becoming an Evangelist

Well, I’ve returned to the “mothership”…

Starting last week at the Adobe Max conference, I am now a Technical Standards Evangelist for Adobe Systems - focusing on PDF-related standards such as PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/E, etc. as well as the new Mars project that I mentioned in my last blog entry.

This means that I can continue to do my work to move the standardization of PDF technologies forward with all the resources of Adobe behind me. In addition, I get to help the engineers here at Adobe create the most standards-compliant PDF on the planet! It’s a lot of work - but I am already in the thick of things and loving every minute of it.

It should also mean that I’ve got more time to write about the various standards, since it’s now part of my job description ;) .

Oh, and if you’re in the Omaha area next week - come see me speak about PDF Standards and Mars at the new PDF Central Conference.

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5 Responses to “Becoming an Evangelist”

  1. CommonPractice.org Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    Leonard,
    1) Is Mars the continuation of the file type roadmap: ps, pdf, mars?
    2) If so, how will mars seek to support current doc, odt and other open document file extensions?
    3) What are the projected size and performance gains between pdf and mars?
    4) Will mars seek to support forms?
    5) Will Apollo be the universal processing tool of all content and open file formats beyond what common browsers do today or remain just an IDE?
    Thanks,
    Dave

  2. leonardr Says:
    November 14th, 2006 at 3:54 pm

    PDF isn’t a continuation of Postscript - they are totally different things. Mars is a an alternate representation of the PDF data structures that exist today. As such, it’s just PDF in a different “disk representation”.

    At this time, as just a technology preview, Mars files are comparable to standard PDF - some PDFs are larger and some Mars files are bigger. Performance in what way? Opening a Mars file? Saving? Printing?

    Mars supports EVERYTHING that PDF does - since it’s just an alternate representation. Forms, Movies, Sounds, 3D, etc.

    Leonard

  3. zoranj Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 10:27 am

    Congratulations Leonard.

    I am looking forward to read more of your writings.

  4. edo119 Says:
    May 30th, 2007 at 3:41 am

    >>zoranj Says:

    mee too

  5. mixpix Says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    Thanks in advance
    msn indir

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