“The most interesting email in my in tray this morning came from
Adobe’s Duane Nickull, pointing me back to his blog–and to the
announcement that Adobe is contributing the entire PDF
specification to the open standards process. According to the Adobe
press release (reproduced in full at the end of this post), the
specification will be contributed to AIIM, which currently
administers those component parts of the PDF specification that
Adobe had previously made available for standardization. When AIIM
has completed the preparation work and its membership has adopted
the new material, it will be submitted to ISO.“Why now? According to Duane’s blog:
“PDF has reached a point in it’s maturity cycle where
maintaining it in an open standards manner is the next logical step
in evolution…”