On Tue, Feb 29, 2000, KU4QD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For Adobe, [UCITA] means .pdf, a proprietary format, could only be
>offered by Adobe.
This might be off-topic -- but I feel the urge to save Adobe's reputation
here. The PDF specification, which is freely downloadable from the
Adobe website[1], contains a paragraph that explicitly allows anyone to
develop PDF software independent of Adobe.
UCITA may it make impossible to reverse-engineer a proprietary format,
but PDF is a bad example, and Adobe has been quite nice to the free
software community in the past. Think of PostScript and TIFF, whose
specs contain similar paragraphs that allow anyone to use these formats.
-- Sascha
Sascha Brawer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~brawer
[1] http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf
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