Adobe is acting all galant/hip/genereous. Why? Because they've opened up the .pdf specification to an international standards body:
"By releasing the full PDF specification for ISO standardization, we are reinforcing our commitment to openness. " -- Morons at Adobe.
Reinforcing eh???
Uh... so... um, let me get this straight? It's an open standard - something you want everyone to adopt? Only... when MS tried to bundle 'save as .pdf' to Office 12 you threatened a massive lawsuit? And now I have to download and install that functionality as a patch?
Great commitment to openness there guys.
Hosers. Here's hoping you idiots run yourselves out of business. I for one vow to never spend another dime on any of your products.
I also was not pleased about the office thing, but if this is really what it is billed as, then Microsoft can bundle it in the next "critical update". I welcome the announcement, because it bothered me that PDF was supposedly open, but not really. Now PDF will really be open, so reading / writing / editing PDFs should soon be built into every office application.
Posted by: W^L+ | January 29, 2007 at 10:03 AM