ISO makes PDF a standard

By Terence Huynh on July 3rd, 2008

Joining the Office Open XML file document types, the International Organization for Standardization have made another popular type an international standard.

Adobe’s Portable Document Format, or the PDF, was announced as a standard on Wednesday morning, after Adobe passed the entire specifications over to the organization. It also looks like that there is no changes to the specifications.

The PDF format is a well known standard, thanks to the distribution of the Adobe’s own reader and other software that can open the files. As well, Apple and Google have integrated the file format, with Google allowing users to read the PDF as an HTML document.

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