Acrobat User Forum

Cost is one aspect of software. There is an impression that Reader Extensions can be expensive. Is this still true? Possibilities change but remain fairly complicated.

Long ago the Reader started out as a $50 charge. A few people tried it out.

Is server software at a similar stage? Some governments and large financial companies are starting projects. Will there be a time when most companies use similar software? Will this be at a different level of prices?

At Seybold Amsterdam the wish genie was asked this question yet again. Stephan Jaeggi mentioned collaboration as a particular aspect that could be widely useful if it could be afforded. Comment on text would contribute to learning. At the moment educational budgets cannot afford full Acrobat on every desk, or the server equivalent.

I have come across a PHP sort of way to create PDF

http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

Seems stuck at version 0.9 so there may be a similar problem as with Apache.

Still, the test works ok.

Any experience with open source and PHP as a route to PDF?

http://www.aiim.org/pdf_a/

Is there any UK site where the archive standard is being used or studied?

It seems to be a limited form of PDF that will cause fewer problems, similar to PDF/X for pre-press. But what happens to PDF that fails to conform? Can this be archived somewhere else?

At Seybold it was generally agreed that the Apache software to create PDF from XML needed much more work. This whole area was new to me. Can anyone explain a bit more about 'XSL-FO' . At the software parc drupa there was more in this area but i didn't have time to look at it. Any ideas?

At drupa there are many possible ways on show that combine a PDF with JDF online. Courier is available now. The Enfocus approach is interesting in using the data within the PDf for transport. What else is happening?

Is Adobe PDF Jobready being used anywhere. Not much sign of this at drupa. I don't think Datalogics was there. The demo of JDF in Acrobat or InDesign made no mention of what happens on the server, so far as I could discover.

defra is one uk case study using Reader Extensions.
Are there any others?
Are there some forms that can be looked at?

Comparing David Brailsford's keynote this year with his slides from Digital Solutions last year, it seems that SVG is getting more support. Why is this?

This is a first post to see if this is working.

The AUF will meet on June 2nd so there could be some discussion online around this.

There will be different posts for the main issues. The comment feature is new in Blogger as such.