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PDF Is Now ISO 32000

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the long-and-winding-road dept.

It is official. As PDF Architect Jim King blogged today, Adobe has received word that the ballot for approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of 13 positive to 1 negative. A two-thirds majority is required to pass so it was a large margin of victory (93%). The vote breaks down as follows: Countries voting positive with no comments (9): Australia, Bulgaria, China, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine. Countries voting positive with comments (4): UK (13 comments), USA (125), Germany (11), Switzerland (19). Countries voting negative with comments (1): France (37 comments). Countries abstaining (1): Russia.

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  1. PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't by boxlight · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    PDF is a nice document format. But Adobe Acrobat is not a very nice application to use. It's bloated and quite "90s" and needs an update bad.

    Apple's QuickView and Preview app does a much nicer job of viewing PDFs. Adobe should totally get Apple to build their PDF viewer.

  2. Re:Might be a dumb question, but... by Capsaicin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can someone please explain to me what this means?

    What this means is that you now have to correct your website and where it says "Download document as PDF" change it to "Download document in ISO3200 standard," or risk the ISO sending the monkeys out from castle to get you!

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  3. Re:Great by alshithead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "The whole point of an open standard is that you're not locked into buying Acrobat (which I assume is what you meant by 'Adobe'). There are a bajillion and one PDF creators out there, many of them free. OS X can print to PDFs out-of-the-box."

    Of course, Acrobat is what I meant when I said Adobe. Looking from a Windows centric support view I guess I assumed that was a given. From the same Windows centric support view... duh?, what's OS X? While you and I, and many others know there are other options, your typical Windows user (read majority) have no clue that you can even create a pdf in anything other than Adobe (Acrobat).

    "The puppy typed 'Adobe' at the moment you were trying to type 'Acrobat'?"

    The puppy says, "Fruck roo, go rinux". :)

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    I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.