PDF Is Now ISO 32000

It is official. As PDF Architect Jim King blogged today, Adobe has received word that the ballot for approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of 13 positive to 1 negative. A two-thirds majority is required to pass so it was a large margin of victory (93%). The vote breaks down as follows: Countries voting positive with no comments (9): Australia, Bulgaria, China, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine. Countries voting positive with comments (4): UK (13 comments), USA (125), Germany (11), Switzerland (19). Countries voting negative with comments (1): France (37 comments). Countries abstaining (1): Russia.

ISO?

[tepples]

So where can I download an ISO of PDF tools?

France...

[nebaz]

We should rename the application "Freedom Bat Reader", to protest their no vote.

That is pretty sensitive....

[Tibor the Hun]

I dunno much, but ISO 32000 ought to be able to record photos in the very darkest of dark places.
It's too bad they'll be saved as PDFs, I prefer to shoot RAW.

Re:Comments?

[Anonymous Coward]

They probably complained that the 'F' was at the end of the acronym instead of at the front.

Re:France...

[iminplaya]

Would you like Adobe Fries with that? Made from real Adobe

Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't

[FredThompson]

"totally" is like, so bitchin' dude. I mean, like, peeps should go tubular and stop being so bogus 90s. Righteous call, bro. Gnarly. I mean, those cats are like...whatEVER!

Abstaining WITH Comments

[CranberryKing]

Russia:

"After long internal deliberation, we have arrived at an official position. We don't give a shit."

Re:In case we forget.

[gotonull]

What, 9000?

Re:Comments?

[harrkev]

Ok. Here is an excerpt from the French reasoning:

How you English say, I one more time-a unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could out-clever us French folk with your silly acrobat-creating about programming behavior! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you heaving lot of second-hand electric donkey bottom biters.

Bad Number

[shemnon]

Number could have been better. Should have been ISO 32768. And the OSS implementations could have been called 32Kib. So close, yet so far.

Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't

[f1055man]

NOOOOO!!! please not another upgrade. It nags me three weeks before an upgrade. NO, I DONT WANT TO FUCKING UPGRADE!!! And three weeks after an upgrade. I ALREADY FUCKING UPGRADED IT!!! Then it resets all my file extension defaults and starts opening everything in Acrobat Reader 8 even though I've told it a million times to open with Acrobat Pro 5. Fucking piece of shit must die.

Note to Acrobat developers, if anyone asks what you do, lie. It could be me. I will fucking kill you and then skull fuck you. I will kill your fucking family and skull fuck them. I will kill your fucking pets and skull fuck them. I will burn your fucking house down and find a way to skull fuck that too. And no jury will convict, they'll wish they had gotten to you first.

Sorry. The first hundred pages of my shit list are devoted solely to Acrobat. Deep breaths, deep breaths

Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't

[jackbird]

I have no idea what you do between bouts of terrorizing and skullfucking Adobe personnel, but I've found PDFCreator and Foxit Reader to be excellent default PDF reading/writing apps for my purposes, while Acrobat Pro 5 quietly sits on my drive waiting for me to need to create a form every so often.

Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't

[graviplana]

Now calm down everyone. Someone put a buffer between this guy and these companies before someone gets hurt!

Re:That is pretty sensitive....

[hamisht]

You mean we could finally get a picture of a grue?

What a useless format

[Anonymous Coward]

What a useless format, it's not even in XML.

Re:Comments?

[l810c]

Comments

Hello, nice site :)

Posted by: Brin | December 4, 2007 01:26 PM

I think Brin left a really nice comment. How he/she made it from MySpace to an article about ISO 32000 Standards is a bit confusing.

The Russians

[Anonymous Coward]

The Russians are waiting for PDF to vote for THEM...

Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't

[AndrewNeo]

If a buffer were the only thing standing between Real and certain doom, Real would never die.

Re:PDF Tainted by Shitty Adobe Reader

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm still confused how they manage to make a viewer/reader that lags every single generation, on any hardware. What are they testing it on? Supercomputers?

Re:The Russians

[neocrono]

> The Russians are waiting for PDF to vote for THEM...

WRONG. Ahem:

"In Soviet Russia, PDF is apathetic about YOU!"

Re:Go Figure on France

[4D6963]

I have no illusions however, they hate my fucking US guts

What the hell is wrong with you people? (Disclaimer : I'm French and I live in France). Why do Americans seem to love so much the idea that the rest of the world (and particularly the French and Arabs) hates them viscerally? The video you linked to was made by a bunch of liberal hippies who, just like all liberal hippies from San Francisco to Prague, like to bash George Bush, the military industrial complex and large corporations.

That doesn't mean we hate you, none of us hates you or America in here, you stupid fat pig!

Oh crap, did I say it out loud? I was supposed to "keep it under covers", like the sneaky Frenchman that I am..

yeah... what a geek

[commodoresloat]

Professional photography jokes, what a riot. Personally I would have gone for the cheap blind date advertisement joke... you know, "PDF is ISO 32000 ... likes tango dancing, long walks on the beach, and platform-independent compression of digital documents..."

Re:Comments? (Monty Pyton)

[raffe]

ARTHUR:
If you will not show us the Grail, we shall take your castle by force!
FRENCH GUARD:
You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
GALAHAD:
What a strange person.
ARTHUR:
Now look here, my good man--
FRENCH GUARD:
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
GALAHAD:
Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
FRENCH GUARD:
No. Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
[sniff]
ARTHUR:
Now, this is your last chance. I've been more than reasonable.

Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't

[VGPowerlord]

Let me adjust those scores for you:
+1 for Apple
0 for Adobe
-3 for Microsoft
-10 for Amazon (sorry Kindle, you're fucked)

Changes I made:
Adobe lost 5 points for threatening to sue Microsoft the last time Microsoft tried implementing PDF in one of their products.
Microsoft gained 2 points for the same thing, but since they're an evil company, I'm not willing to give them more points.

Re:That is pretty sensitive....

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean we could finally get a picture of a grue?

You are likely to....

Should've pushed for 100%

[oracle128]

The French would've surrendered eventually.

In Soviet Russia

[therufus]

In Soviet Russia, ISO standard becomes PDF!!!!!

Actually, that would work. It becomes a PDF so people could read it.

Have we found an "in Soviet Russia" joke that doesn't work?