Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > AcroForms aren't going away anytime soon, for a variety of reasons.
I know, but I had a discussion on a Dutch forum with a guy who was convinced of the opposite. It's hard to talk to people who base their opinion on hearsay. > 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? I don't think that would change anything if you look at it from the point of view of the developer. I buy the reasons that are listed in the PDF Reference: it's a way to protect the format (remember JavaScript, HTML,...). Nevertheless, if you look at it from the point of view of companies, you get a different story. A lot of decisions are made because of corporate politics. I don't always understand the need for such decisions, so I'm not the right guy to ask this kind of question. > XDP will go away in favor of Mars & UCF Aha, that's what I thought. These Adobe Labs are really going somewhere. I like it! br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
