PDF/A support in LibreOffice

[Thorsten Behrens]

Hi Christoph,

"Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
> First, how did you manage to do this? Did you have access to the ISO
> spec? And if so, would you be prepared to share the spec (or the
> required information) with other open source projects?
>
Yes, individual contributors have access to the relevant
specs. Unfortunately, for PDF/A, the ISO owns the copyright, thus the
documents cannot be easily redistributed.

The non-accessibility of standardisation documents (in various ways)
is a way to render a standard non-open, in the view of e.g. the
FSFE. IIRC ISO working groups can flag a standards document as freely
redistributable prior to publication, so perhaps poking the folks at
pdfa.org could help? There's also sometimes draft versions of upcoming
standards available from their page.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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