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Originally Posted by ProfJulie
What exactly are you blaming them for? The fact that vendors don't make use of the features that are provided? The fact that people who generate PDF files don't understand the importance of tagging the file to make it accessible on different devices? I don't follow that logic.
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I compare it to SGML and XML. There was not and is not so many SGML applications available and the ones that exists are usually expensive. When XML became popular it became much more easier to write programs that did the same thing that programs handling SGML did plus XML developed further so now you can do a lot of things you could not do before and most XML handling libraries are free or open source.
Adobe has not incentive to the same thing with pdf. They are happy because they have the programs handling pdf that they can sell and they have a kind of monpoly. I do not believe that pdf is the best solution to the actual technical problem.