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Originally Posted by HarryT
Given that the PDF format has only relatively recently become an open standard, one can reasonably hope that good libraries for handling the format will become available in due course.
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That will probably not happen. To get an open working eco system you cannot start with a closed format since the growth of the eco system influences the development of the format.
Opening the format in principle just add a tag to it so that tool providers can use it in their promotion. Therefore in spite of pdf being now an open standard it feels wrong to call it an open format.