Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > Since Adobe no longer owns PDF (we turned it over to the ISO), there > will NEVER BE a PDF 1.8.
Hmm... what will the PDF header look like? Surely there will be some version number? Will it be something like 1.7.1? > Instead, Adobe is following the rules imposed by the ISO which > enables any developer to "extend" PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000). OK, even before PDF became an ISO, Adobe had the discipline to be backward compatible: stuff that works in PDF 1.x also works in PDF 1.(x + 1). I only hope that there won't be a proliferation of extensions with a diverging standard as a result (the Adobe version of PDF 1.7 + Adobe extensions versus the MS version of PDF 1.7 + MS extensions; yuck!). I mean: look at what happened with HTML. Sure, you could write HTML that works on all browsers, but as soon as you wanted to use some new 'goodie', you had to be extremely careful to make sure that something you wrote for MSIE also worked on Netscape (and vice-versa). We don't want that to happen with PDF, do we? ;-) > We will be > publishing our "Adobe Extensions to ISO 32000" documentation as soon > as we ship, and are also submitting it to the ISO for consideration > in future versions of ISO 32000. OK, let me correct myself: I'm looking forward to read the Adobe Extensions documentation! br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar
