Comparison of AI to XDP

[handrawn]

Adobe patents for PDF are irrelevant, they gave away the rights nearly 10 years ago - I am not in the ISO loop so I do not know who are, and who are not, the major players; but Mike is correct when he says Adobe no longer have 'ownership'

[ernie-f]

Adobe patents for PDF are irrelevant, they gave away the rights nearly 10 years ago - I am not in the ISO loop so I do not know who are, and who are not, the major players; but Mike is correct when he says Adobe no longer have 'ownership'

Since 2008 is Adobe no longer the owner of PDF. They give it to the ISO-Group to develope all the standards like PDF-X1a/X-3 and the new standard for the Print industry APE (PDF-X4). APE stay for Adobe Print Engine and allows true transparancy in PDF-Documents. The first patent of PDF is going out by time but the new technologies are still patentet by Adobe and other developers. The License fee goes still to them.

[handrawn]

[appologies to mark - this is diverging a bit]

not sure what you are getting at - do you mean APPE [adobe pdf print engine] ?

APPE and pdf-x4 have been around a long time, pdf-x4 is ISO standard

which new technologies?
which licence fees?

I'm confused