Hi Christoph, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
First, how did you manage to do this? Did you have access to the ISO spec? And if so, would you be prepared to share the spec (or the required information) with other open source projects?
Yes, individual contributors have access to the relevant specs. Unfortunately, for PDF/A, the ISO owns the copyright, thus the documents cannot be easily redistributed. The non-accessibility of standardisation documents (in various ways) is a way to render a standard non-open, in the view of e.g. the FSFE. IIRC ISO working groups can flag a standards document as freely redistributable prior to publication, so perhaps poking the folks at pdfa.org could help? There's also sometimes draft versions of upcoming standards available from their page. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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