Adobe, the company owning PDF, has decided to release the specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association.

PDF has become the de facto standard for distributing documents over the web. It already provides support for web technologies, rich media and XML.

It is a great move from Adobe, the company who invented the format in early 1990s. The Acrobat Reader used to read PDF was released by the company as a free tool more than a decade ago. So, this is the logical next step for the company, albeit somewhat late!

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