On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:39 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: > > > There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are > > pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. > > So what problem do you have with PDF's, they're an open, public format. > Not really. I will give Adobe credit for honestly documenting the format. That puts them way ahead of what Microsoft did with ooxml. The PDF format has been documented for a long time and version 1.7 has become an ISO standard. Up until version 1.7, it was always a proprietary, openly documented format. But, it was still proprietary, with only Adobe controlling the format. I'll see how the ISO 32000 format works out. If it is widely adopted, I will be more open to pointing to those documents. As of now, most PDFs on the web are not version 1.7. I don't want to take the chance that some PDF I would point to would only open in the Adobe product. In that case, I would be indirectly suggesting that someone install the Adobe PDF reader. The license for the Adobe PDF reader is objectionable and I would not want to spread its adoption.
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