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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. Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Troll

    Click on "download" idiot. Their idea of "free" is "get someone else to pay for it by link scam".

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  2. Re:France... by mgblst · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK so why is this good but the Microsoft format is bad?

    Does this really need to be explained...how about the obvious reason. Why don't you look at that first, and then come back and see if there is any confusion. Fucking moron.
  3. Re:ISO? by PrescriptionWarning · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem I've seen though is that the only tools out there for editing existing PDFs (Foxit, cute, adobe) ... ALL cost money... Until Open Office can import a PDF ready for editing, I wonder if they jumped the gun on this ISO until there's a readily available free alternative to editing an existing PDF, without having the originating DOC or ODF or whatever.