Comments on: PDF goes to ISO http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2007/01/29/pdf-goes-to-iso/ Leonard Rosenthol's thoughts on all things PDF Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:35:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: leonardr http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2007/01/29/pdf-goes-to-iso/#comment-141 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:29:53 +0000 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2007/01/29/pdf-goes-to-iso/#comment-141 What about XFA? XFA is just one of approx. 40 other standards (open and/or published) that are referenced from the PDF Reference. It is therefore in the same category as Type 1 fonts, Postscript, etc. Do you believe that XFA needs to be submitted to ISO as well? Why? What happens is just what you said - they may indeed be "out of sync". Adobe, like the myriad of 3rd party developers have for 14 years, add features to PDF that aren't part of the standard. And in this case, the standard may choose to add features that Adobe hasn't yet adopted. I guess I don't see the problem?!?! Leonard What about XFA? XFA is just one of approx. 40 other standards (open and/or published) that are referenced from the PDF Reference. It is therefore in the same category as Type 1 fonts, Postscript, etc. Do you believe that XFA needs to be submitted to ISO as well? Why?

What happens is just what you said - they may indeed be “out of sync”. Adobe, like the myriad of 3rd party developers have for 14 years, add features to PDF that aren’t part of the standard. And in this case, the standard may choose to add features that Adobe hasn’t yet adopted. I guess I don’t see the problem?!?!

Leonard

]]> by: pdftrainer http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2007/01/29/pdf-goes-to-iso/#comment-138 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:58:51 +0000 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2007/01/29/pdf-goes-to-iso/#comment-138 Hi Leonard, Two questions keep coming back at me from various newsgroups. 1) What about the XFA spec? 2) What happens when Acrobat and the PDF get out of sync. In other words, Adobe may be at Acrobat 10 by the time an ISO committee generates a new PDF spec. Carl Young www.pdfconference.com Hi Leonard,

Two questions keep coming back at me from various newsgroups.

1) What about the XFA spec?
2) What happens when Acrobat and the PDF get out of sync. In other words, Adobe may be at Acrobat 10 by the time an ISO committee generates a new PDF spec.

Carl Young
www.pdfconference.com

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