Jargons of Info Tech industry

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Sun Oct 16 18:58:59 EDT 2005


Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> writes:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:24:21 GMT, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote or
> quoted :
>>How about pdf?
> My complaint with it is it is Adobe proprietary. This make the tools
> very expensive. 

No, it isn't. The standard is publicly available, so anyone can write
tools that produce and/or manipulate PDF. Lots of people do. Pretty
much any WP or DP package worth using will generate PDF at out of the
box - and some of those are free.

    <mike
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