nickull's Journal: Adobe to release PDF specification to AIIM/ISO

Adobe announced it will release the entire PDF specification (current version 1.7 at http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/pdfconversations) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) via AIIM. PDF has reached a point in it's maturity cycle where maintaining it in an open standards manner is the next logical step in evolution. Not only does this reinforce Adobe's commitment to open standards (see also my earlier blog on the release of flash runtime code to the Tamarin open source project at Sourceforge), but it demonstrates that open standards and open source strategies are really becoming a mainstream concept in the software industry.