> Because Adobe's promise of a *Portable*-DF is not
> true any longer, since
> they only support WinNT_x86 / Linux_x86 and maybe
> Mac{ppc|x86} users for
> circa 5 years now. All the other platforms are left
> out, more or less.
I wouldn't be so quick to write that. As far as I know, Adobe has released the
specs for the PDF format, which is how tools like `xpdf` and `evince` came to
be.
Since these specs are available to anyone, technically speaking, Adobe is not
obligated to provide a reader for every platform, since other parties are free
to develop one. That's what *open standards* are all about.
As much as I dislike Adobe for not providing a reader for my favorite platform
for the format they invented, I have to be objective: Adobe does not have to do
that in order to be able to claim that they invented a portable document format.
As soon as specs are released, they become open standard, portable format. At
that point, it's game over, and they can indeed claim to have invented a
portable document format.
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