I think it soon will be Now, Adobe portable document format (pdf 1.7) is going to be lisenced as ISO 32000 standard (DIS). The standard was approved by a vote of 13:1, with one country (Russia) abstaining and one country (France) voting against. Jim King is going to answer the concerns about pdf format around jan 21-23 to the iso committee. More from his blog (http://blogs.adobe.com/insidepdf/2007/12/iso_ballot_for_pdf_17_passed.html )
This move is generally seen as a response to the Microsoft's XPS standard. Ashes On Jan 21, 2008 11:11 PM, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is an article that I found in gnu.org website. Its about how we > can and why we should put an end to word format. Have a look if you > haven't read it already. > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > And so that i dont flame a war, this is not my words, its written by > Richard Stallman, I am just forwarding the link. > > Cheers > > -- > Shishir Jha > EPC 1970,GPO 8975, > KTM,NEPAL > > > > -- Regards AD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
