On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:32:09 +0100 Slavko <li...@slavino.sk> wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:24:14 -0500 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> napísal: > > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:37:36 -0700 > > Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > But yes it is hard to avoid proprietary protocols. Tax forms are in > > > PDF. Videos are in Flash, or worse Silverlight. Audio files are in > > > > I think we've discussed this before, but is it really correct to call > > PDF a proprietary protocol? I know that full implementation of the > > spec is not present in the various FLOSS applications, but my > > understanding (a quick search of the web yields inconclusive results) > > is that the spec is publicly available and usable without any > > significant restrictions. > > By me knowledge, the PDF is proprietary, the PDF/A is public.
I don't have a deep understanding of these things, but it seems that full-function PDF 1.7 has been approved as ISO standard ISO 32000-1:2008, which seems to make it pretty open. There are also, apparently, proprietary extensions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Standardization > Slavko > http://slavino.sk Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140119095309.97de4c0ce0888218ad9cb...@gmail.com
