Meanwhile, PDF Is Already An ISO Document Standard...
Blog Last year, Adobe put PDF up to become an ISO standard, something I've been aware of in the back of my mind throughout all the OOXML palaver. And interestingly, I see from the history, that Foxit has been around since at least 2006, so it's not...
[April 1, 2008, 11:49]
Adobe's PDF Becomes ISO Standard
News The ISO has issued a press release about the new standard — ISO 32000-1:2008 — along with a quote from Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch. Adobe has been the key developer and patent holder of the technology, and on Wednesday passed over...
[July 4, 2008, 10:10]
Meanwhile, PDF Is Already An ISO Document Standard...
Blog Comment I know there are lots of PDF-related products, and I'm glad to know there is an alternative to Adobe Standard if I ever go that way. I see you're both addressing the point of view of PDF producers; I've had the luck so far to only need PDF as a...
[April 1, 2008, 15:39]
Meanwhile, PDF Is Already An ISO Document Standard...
Blog Comment I learned a long time ago that browsers were changing so rapidly, and in ways that Adobe apparently keep up with in their plug-in, that I was better off not trying to use the plug-in to read PDF files.
[April 1, 2008, 13:20]
Meanwhile, PDF Is Already An ISO Document Standard...
Blog Comment The only difference now is that it's an ISO committee determing the direction of the PDF format, rather than solely Adobe themselves. The reason why Foxit and hundreds of other PDF software developers out there have been able to build such products...
[April 1, 2008, 13:16]
Adobe Seeks Formal Standardisation For PDF
News But Adobe customers, particularly governments, have told Adobe that making PDF an ISO-approved standard would raise their level of confidence that the format would be around in the long term, said Kevin Lynch, Adobe senior vice president and chief...
[January 29, 2007, 7:59]
Report Backs PDF Variant For Long-term Archiving
News Although PDF is a de facto standard, it is not a recognised ISO standard. PDF/A was therefore created and standardised in 2005 as ISO 19005-1 — it is effectively a stripped-down version of PDF in which fonts have to be embedded and audio, video and...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
Microsoft Admits To Standards Ignorance Pre-OOXML
News Microsoft's OOXML specification was initially approved as a standard by ISO in April this year. Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee admitted that the company had no specific department or individuals focused solely on standards prior...
[June 23, 2008, 14:21]
OOXML Backwards Compatibility Led Microsoft To ODF
News Following controversy over Microsoft's conduct in pushing through OOXML as an ISO document standard, the Commission announced that it would probe OOXML as part of its ongoing antitrust investigation. Microsoft pushed OOXML through as a fast-track...
[May 22, 2008, 15:39]
Help Microsoft Stay True To Its Word
Leader People want PDF, it's been offered as an ISO standard and it fulfils many needs for platform-independent data handling. Being an open standard, PDF is free for Microsoft to implement without limitation — a modest investment that rewards us all.
[October 4, 2005, 14:15]
Microsoft Promise Great News For Hobbyists!
Talkback I don't think Microsoft Office supported PDF (an ISO standard like ODF) until after OpenOffice.org did. It is an ISO standard after all. When finally pressured into doing so, they undermine the standard by "extending" it as with HTML, Java etc.
[February 23, 2008, 8:51]
Microsoft To Release ODF Translator For Word
News Adobe Systems, too, said last week that it intends to submit the full Portable Document Format, or PDF, to ISO for standardisation. Microsoft, meanwhile, has standardised the Office Open XML (OOXML) document formats at Ecma International and is in...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Microsoft Presses On Regardless With OOXML SDK
Blog However, the OOXML kit which is on its way could cause confusion, as it won't meet the standard being considered at ISO. Microsoft will have a beta version of the OOXML SDK next month, and a 1.0 release in May, but that won't include the changes...
[March 13, 2008, 10:27]
Microsoft's U-turn: ODF Support And Not OOXML?
Blog The most likely explanation for such a major change is simply that ODF is the only format that is currently available as an ISO/IEC standard (OOXML is still being finished) and that, after all, is the aim here.
[May 22, 2008, 7:39]
Not Inconsistent At All
Talkback My objection to Relax NG DTD Compatibility, is not that it is an OASIS Committee Specifcation rather than an ISO Standard. For example, ODF 1.0 does not conform to XML 1.1, VRML, SGML, OpenFont, OOXML, or PDF/A.
[May 22, 2008, 11:35]
Microsoft Attacks IBM Over ODF
News ODF is the international ISO standard — we would be delighted if Microsoft took part in improving that standard. ODF is not coming from the standpoint of preserving previous documents, which is a bit like saying there's no room for PDF if you have...
[May 10, 2007, 16:23]
Massachusetts May Embrace Microsoft Office
News The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which holds significant weight with governments around the world, is currently weighing whether to accept Office Open XML as a standard. We completely agree: ooXML looks backward, while ODF...
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
Mostly Right, With Critical Exceptions
Talkback There is a certain responsibility when you control the market and wield the power that Microsoft does, and the very questionable events around this ISO standard do not give the impression that Microsoft is respecting that responsibility.
[April 15, 2008, 15:59]
ODF, The Big Picture
Talkback I don't think many in this discussion were cheering the virtues of OOXML as an ISO/IEC standard. There's a reason Microsoft may not of objected to ISO standardization of the ODF format. As Gary again pointed out “Microsoft is grateful that once an...
[March 2, 2008, 17:39]
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[October 18, 2005, 21:16]
