Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 29th Jan 2007 10:03 UTC, submitted by flanque
Adobe Systems today announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM, in turn, will start working on making PDF an ISO standard.
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2006-09-15
I like PDF's but what I find a pain to deal with is Acrobat Pro.
I'd personally like Adobe to simplify the feature set for Acrobat and ditch ink management and the likes from Acrobat as Colour spaces and the like should have been embedded when the original PDF was created.
Then for colour management I can just use Fiery Tools on my Print Servers not the crap that Acrobat comes embedded with. I think also the problem with PDF is that it has grown well beyond what it was originally designed for. Embedding multimedia and the likes is fun and all but not when people send stuff like that down the line to us to print.
There also is a lot of confusion as to how to create decent PDF's from applications. Why have export to PDF if you are going to suffer transparency issues and reccommend using Print to PDF instead?
Adobe needs to clean up PDF's and how they are generated /managed to get the spec back to being a reliable format. Still, I'd take a PDF anyday over bloody Docs.
Edited 2007-01-29 21:34