On Jan 1, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Bruno Lowagie wrote:
> There are evolutions in PDF that I don't understand,
> and therefore don't like; for instance: why did they
> introduce all that XML stuff?
Because for a many of our corporate customers it is a necessity for
them in the incorporation/integration of PDF with their existing
system for the processing of forms. It also gave us a richer, more
modern, foundation on which to build on.
> There are even people
> that think AcroForms will be abandoned and replaced
> by XFA. That would be crazy. I like the AcroForm
> functionality.
AcroForms aren't going away anytime soon, for a variety of reasons.
HOWEVER, we will continue to push XFA as the forms technology of
choice for most things.
> I think we mustn't look at the PDF specification as
> a standard, at most it's a de facto standard for
> many companies.
What if Adobe opened up the PDF spec entirely? Turning it over to a
standards body like ISO, W3C, etc.? Would you think that would be
good for PDF? Bad? Why?
> IMO it's important that the basic structure of PDF
> doesn't change (I have my doubts about stuff like XDP).
XDP will go away in favor of Mars & UCF (the packaging system used
by Mars, Apollo, etc.)
Leonard
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