Wisdom of the PDF Sage

As you can see from the lack of content on this blog in the last year - I’ve had a VERY busy year!

There were two things that kept me from writing.

First was the ISO Standardization of PDF, which my colleague Jim King has written about on his InsidePDF blog.

The second, was announced this morning - Acrobat & Reader 9! There is so much there to talk about, and I’ll be writing shortly. In the meantime, start with Lori’s blog for some general info and then check out Rick Borstein’s AcroLaw for more details.

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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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 After a bit of web searching - I only found a few outdated things - so I felt that this was an excellent task for me as the Evangelist for PDF Standards.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!

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.

It’s hard to imagine this - but some of you reading this blog might not know who I am…

First and foremost, I am the Chief Innovation Officer for Apago.  I am responsible for the design and development of our cross-platform PDF tools such as the award winning PDF Enhancer and our recently announced PDF/A tool, PDF Appraiser.

In addition, I continue to provide the ONLY Adobe-authorized Acrobat & PDF developer training as the Chief Technology Officer of PDF Sages.

I also do a lot of work with the Open Source community as a maintainer or contributor for a variety of projects related to PDF and graphics.

If you want to read more about me - you can check out my bio here.

As the expression goes - “Enter at your own risk”…

This blog will be a place for me to comment on issues related to PDF and related standards such as PDF/A, PDF/X, etc. They will be usually, though not always, be of a technical nature. I will also try to drop in the occasion user tidbit or tip about using Acrobat or maybe some comments about other 3rd party software.

Hopefully you’ll find some things of value.

Leonard