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PDF Is Now ISO 32000
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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So, now the "not" so "portable document format" gains further acceptance. I'll grant that it has it's uses but until the full version of Adobe is available for free, or even less expensive, to the masses, it seems to be not quite right. I'd also certainly rather have a format that is a lot less file size intensive. To all mail users...no, you can't keep all of those emails with pdf's in your inbox without going over your quota. Save the damn things and delete the emails.
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
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last i heard it's still for fags.
Click on "download" idiot. Their idea of "free" is "get someone else to pay for it by link scam".
How we know is more important than what we know.
Wait... Windows can't do this out-of-the box? Another reason Ubuntu wins.
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What the hell is wrong with you people? (Disclaimer : I'm French and I live in France). Why do Americans seem to love so much the idea that the rest of the world (and particularly the French and Arabs) hates them viscerally? The video you linked to was made by a bunch of liberal hippies who, just like all liberal hippies from San Francisco to Prague, like to bash George Bush, the military industrial complex and large corporations.
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I suspect it has a lot to do with your behavior, which frankly as a country has been deplorable. Pretty much the same with the ARABS. Both of your respective communities seem to be into complete denial about what the rest of the world is like, what personal responsibility is, what it is to respect people from different culture than yours and frankly have a huge disregard for life.
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That doesn't mean we hate you, none of us hates you or America in here, you stupid fat pig!
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If that was the case, that is France and Europeans in general really loved the USA they would have supported us with the various wars against the ARABS. Instead France can't seem to realize the extreme danger such people pose to the world even as your cities are plagued with riots, murders and rapes performed by these un-evolved people. By the way that is not an indication that all ARABS are un-evolved but it does highlight that there is littel effort underway in the ARAB world to clean up, destroy or other wise deal with the laggards. If the French and the ARABS really want ot be seen in a positive light they need to !. clean up the mess within their borders and two join us in the destruction of those that resist.
As to being sneaky well that is your problem or perception. All we want in America is a little acknowledgment that there are problems in this world that can only be solved if some people loose big time. There simply is not a win-win case in a resource constrained environment. That is the way the earth is right now and there simply isn't much that can be done about it at the moment.
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.