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Adobe turns over the keys to PDF to ISO

By David Worthington

July 3, 2008 — The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification may have already seemed like a standard, but now, it’s official.

Adobe Systems has relinquished control of PDF to ISO International, which in turn has now formally adopted the format as a global standard for electronic documents.

ISO announced yesterday that PDF will now be formally known as ISO 32000-1. It will assume the responsibility for publishing the specifications for PDF version 1.7 and for updating and maintaining all future versions of the format.

PDF received global acceptance in December, when participating countries voted nearly unanimously to approve PDF 1.7 as an ISO standard.

While ISO approval will further legitimize PDF for those organizations that are sticklers about ISO approval, PDF is almost universally accepted, even in government, said Guy Creese, a vice president and research director of Burton Group. “The ISO approval further legitimizes that usage,” he added.

What’s more, the perception that Adobe is a platform-neutral vendor will contribute to its acceptance, Creese said. “Adobe is seen as an ‘open’ proprietary vendor, and that makes all the difference in the world.”

Several subsets of the PDF format had already been approved by ISO as international standards: PDF for Archive, PDF for Engineering and PDF for Exchange.

Meanwhile, PDF for Universal Access remains on the organization’s docket. The Association for Information and Image Management standards committee currently oversees it, and it was also responsible for submitting PDF 1.7 to ISO.

In related news, Adobe released Acrobat 9 on Tuesday, including updates of Adobe Creative Suite, Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard, as well as Adobe Reader for Mac OS X and Windows. As an alternative form of distribution, the company is beta testing a lineup of hosted services at Acrobat.com.

Acrobat 9 has native support for PDF 1.7, Adobe Extension Level 3,which is a backwards-compatible extension to ISO 32000-1. Adobe was unable to provide a spokesperson at the time of this writing.

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