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From Document Freedom Day

ISO's only open standard?

Is this true:

The Open Document Format (ODF) is the first and only Open Standard standardised in ISO.

? Are there really no other standards published by ISO which are Open Standards? Or maybe ODF is just the first *word processor document format* to be standardised by ISO? Ciaran 09:20, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Document standards cover a lot of areas. I'd like to point out that in "document standards", PDF is now an approved ISO standard, ISO 32000-1. (See Jim King's blog | http://tinyurl.com/2unnxd . Additionally, there are any number of open source products, both readers and writers that provide PDF functionality.

ISO PDF is therefore an international (and open) document standard. It provides complete freedom for developers to create tools and users to choose those tools.

davemc

Disclosure - I work for Adobe as director of standards and open source.