I am one of those people (spouses, more like it) who’ll have this kind of conversation each night:<\/p>\n
\nKim: I’m hungry.
\nCoté: OK, just a minute, I need to finish up a post!
\n[Two hours later. It’s gotten dark.]
\nCoté: all done!
\nKim: I already ate.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nSo, I thought “why not have a new format called ‘One Last Thing!’ wherein I write in ‘a minute’ what I could take 2 hours to write.”<\/p>\n
So, here is your first installment. Then it’s off to cook some orange roughy and beets.<\/p>\n
(Let’s see if I can actually do it.)<\/p>\n
PDF to AIIM\/ISO<\/h2>\n
Last week, Adobe pre-briefed us on today’s announcement about kicking off the process to make PDF an open standard<\/a> via AIIM to ISO. There’s always devil spotting in the details<\/a> and this will take quite some time to fully pan out (standards!), but overall I’m exuberant about it. I like both PDF as a medium and open standards as A Way of Life. I’ve lamented the resulting frienemy status before<\/a>, which will hopfully become less “-emy” and more “frien-“<\/p>\n
Each time I’m harsh about the openness of something at Adobe<\/a>, they surprise me by becoming a tad<\/i> more open<\/a>. Sure, I emphasis “tad” there, and I’m also incredibly sympathetic to how tedious and lengthy change is at large, established companies. But at the very least I probably won’t be “surprised” next time.<\/p>\n
For those who want more, we know that our resident Document Dork<\/a> will cover this is more depth soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n
And, I echo Steve’s compliments of Duane<\/a>. Indeed, it should be noted that Duane seems to have done “the press release as we wish press releases were”<\/a> for this announcement which, hopefully, the folks chewing over “do we still new press releases” question will have noticed.<\/p>\n
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Technorati Tags: standards<\/a>, openstandards<\/a>, adobe<\/a>, pdf<\/a><\/p>\n
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