Archive for January, 2007

PDF goes to ISO

Monday, January 29th, 2007

This morning (East Coast time), Adobe announced that they intend to submit the PDF 1.7 reference to ISO. In addition, there is a FAQ that should address some common questions.

This is the next logical step for PDF in its long history of openness, and will serve to strengthen PDF’s position as the truly open solution for electronic document distribution and archiving. In addition, it will give others an opportunity to bring their specific needs and desires to PDF helping to drive it in new directions.

For me, this announcement is the start of a journey that I am looking forward to - that of shepherding PDF through the process to being an ISO Standard. I will be sure to keep folks up to date with this blog and hope you’ll come along for the ride!

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PDF - a history of openness

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Brian Jones recently wrote up a history of OOXML for Microsoft and it dawned on me that I wasn’t aware of anything similar for PDF that demonstrated its long history of openness. After a bit of web searching - I only found a few outdated things - so I felt that this was an excellent task for me as the Evangelist for PDF Standards.

So I created a new page for this blog with all the details about PDF. Not only from Adobe, but also standards bodies such as AIIM, DDAP and ISO. In addition, I incorporated some key open source project dates.

A History of PDF Openness

Enjoy!

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