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Old 29-01-2007, 10:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Adobe Systems Inc. on Jan. 29 announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM, in turn, will start working on making PDF an ISO standard.

In this release, Adobe is opening up the full PDF 1.7 specification as defined in the AIIM's PDF Reference Manual. According to Sarah Rosenbaum, Adobe's director of product management, this is the next logical step for Adobe with its PDF formats. In the 14 years since Adobe published the complete PDF specification in 1993, PDF has become a de facto global standard for secure and dependable information exchange and archival storage.
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Old 29-01-2007, 06:26 PM   #2 (permalink)
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wow, this is great
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Old 30-01-2007, 01:53 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Good riddance proprietary PDF, Welcome ISO ceritified PDF! It was about time after the MS and Adobe dispute.
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Merged.
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thanx god, now atleast something compatible will be out for vista soon
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