They actually did open up the PDF, believe it or not. The standard is currently controlled by ISO, and has been since 2008.
The problem is that PDF is such a shitty format that no one but Adobe really wants to bother trying to work with it. That, and Adobe still owns a lot of the patents for “shit you can do to a PDF” so everyone else has to engineer their own solutions to get around that if they don’t want to pay to license.
Im just curious, what makes you say that PDF is a shitty format? I remember starting to read a book on PDFs before when I was trying to learn to code with them and being surprised how much work it actually entailed.
So Adobe’s headassery and proprietary lock on .pdf has introduced a new vector of malware!
I fucking hate Adobe they should be broken up
They actually did open up the PDF, believe it or not. The standard is currently controlled by ISO, and has been since 2008.
The problem is that PDF is such a shitty format that no one but Adobe really wants to bother trying to work with it. That, and Adobe still owns a lot of the patents for “shit you can do to a PDF” so everyone else has to engineer their own solutions to get around that if they don’t want to pay to license.
That’s insightful.
I’d wondered why other PDF apps came on the market in the mid 2000’s.
Is there an alternative format to PDF that behaves similarly? I’m not talking about docx or others, because portability is a mess with those.
Im just curious, what makes you say that PDF is a shitty format? I remember starting to read a book on PDFs before when I was trying to learn to code with them and being surprised how much work it actually entailed.