[poppler] PDF 2.0 Spec

Leonard Rosenthol lrosenth at adobe.com
Wed Nov 7 17:10:59 UTC 2018


Adobe was able to do that with the 32000-1 spec, because it owned it...

But 32000-2 is entirely an ISO-developed/owned document, so we have no control.

Groups like the PDF Association (http://www.pdfa.org) are trying to find ways to make it available...

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: poppler <poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of Pablo Rodríguez
Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 11:34 AM
To: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [poppler] PDF 2.0 Spec

On 11/7/18 1:36 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> Acrobat supports many parts of PDF 2.0, but not all.  Like all companies we'll decide which ones are important to our customers and implement them as needed.
> 
> Just a reminder that while purchase of an ISO specification costs $$, participation in the development process of the standard (in most countries) is FREE!   (which is the opposite of groups like the W3C, where membership costs $$, but the results are free).  Neither is perfect.
> 
> That draft document should never have been posted in the first place...

Leonard,

will Adobe release a public version of the PDF 2.0 spec (in a similar way
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adobe.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Facom%2Fen%2Fdevnet%2Fpdf%2FPDF32000_2008.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Ccb8dee3bc2eb4b5ce20d08d644d08d0c%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636772059847072199&sdata=gPo3AHg1tBuCUlqo%2BJPNv9649oLv2%2FcUWzOlQrMIS2E%3D&reserved=0
was published)?

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo
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