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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 Adobe PDF now an ISO standard

Adobe hands control of PDF to the ISO, creates a standard

Jonny Evans

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PDF has become an international ISO standard.

Adobe has handed over control of its Portable Document Format (PDF) format to the ISO (International Organisation for Standardization)

PDGF is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This follows Adobe's decision to relinquish control to ISO, whicj is now in charge of publishing the specifications for the current version (1.7) and for updating and developing future versions.

“By releasing the full PDF specification for ISO standardization, we are reinforcing our commitment to openness", says Kevin Lynch, chief technology officer at Adobe.

"As governments and organizations increasingly request open formats, maintenance of the PDF specification by an external and participatory organization will help continue to drive innovation and expand the rich PDF ecosystem that has evolved over the past 15 years.”

ISO secretary-general Alan Bryden said: "The standard will benefit both software developers and users by encouraging the propagation and dissemination of a common technology that cuts across systems and is designed for long term survival.”

This International Standard supplies the essential information needed by developers of software that create PDF files (conforming writers), software that reads existing PDF files and interprets their contents for display and interaction (conforming readers), and PDF products that read and/or write PDF files for a variety of other purposes (conforming products).

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