FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 2, 2009 @02:37PM from the prety-darn-fine dept.

FSFE Fellow writes "The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about PDF with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. FSFE president Georg Greve says: 'Interoperability, competition and choice are primary benefits of Open Standards that translate into vendor-independence and better value for money for customers. Although many versions of PDF offer all these benefits for formatted text and documents, files in PDF formats typically come with information that users need to use a specific product. pdfreaders.org provides an alternative to highlight the strengths of PDF as an Open Standard.'"

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Is there another document format by coryking · 2009-02-02 16:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

That works exactly like PDF that is 100% Stallman approved F/OSS?
You can print PDF files out of Word with a free download. There are perl libraries, php libraries and c libraries to create pdf files.
There isn't anything Stallman Free(tm) in existence that does anything close to PDF. And by "close to" I mean has a GUI and is brain dead easy for print shops, design studios, web publishers, API writers and end users to install and use.