Richard, On Wednesday 13 October 2004 13:15, Richard Bos wrote:
Op woensdag 13 oktober 2004 22:16, schreef Jerome R. Westrick:
First Convince them they need to use openstandards, like all published documents in PDF format
Is PDF a real open standard, or is it more a format that is more or less stable and available for most OS flavours? The real open standard for documents seems to become the one form OASIS. That might even become an iso standard.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "a real open standard." Adobe controls it, but publishes it freely. It's a stable target for development and Adobe is unlikely to make non-backward-compatible changes. On the other hand, while I worked there the the PostScript Level 2 standard came out. I heard one of the engineers exlaim "Clone this!" (the level 2 spec is much larger than the original spec--up from 320 to 760 pages). And as you know, the Ghostscript people did clone the Level 2 features.
-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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