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Old 08-07-2009, 01:07 PM   #177
pjssilva
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Originally Posted by mtravellerh View Post
PDF is not (repeat: NOT) a neutral format!
PDF is an open standard. Anyone can implement a reader or a writer to it and there are in fact many implementations. You can read PDF in basically anything that has a screen and a general processor (even my old Palm TX can read PDF). Yes it was created by ADOBE, but is very open.

Maybe I made a poor choice of words. Instead of using the adjective "neutral", I should use "open". What I didn't want was to end with my annotations locked up in a file format that can only be opened by a single vendor's software.
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