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

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