U.S. Endorsement

The Adobe objective in creating the ISO Draft of PDF Reference 1.7 was to create a document that was both easier to read and understand, and more in line with the style requirements of the international standards community.  The key goals during that process were to insure that the resultant document was technically consistent with the PDF Reference 1.7 published by Adobe in November 2006 and to also incorporate the interpretations of that specification provided by Adobe PDF application developers. This ensures that existing PDF files will be compatible with ISO draft PDF Reference 1.7.

The members of the US technical committee who have reviewed the ISO draft of PDF Reference 1.7 agree that these documents are technically consistent.  That is to say, existing valid PDF files that obey the PDF 1.7 Reference also obey the ISO draft and files created in accordance with, or evaluated against, either document will produce the same results.

The members of the US PDF committee of TC 171 urge the other national body members to support this proposed work item, ISO/DIS 32000, Document management - Portable document format - PDF Reference 1.7.

If it would be useful to your national body to have a more detailed explanation of the process used to create the ISO Draft, Jim King of Adobe has indicated that he is willing to meet with any concerned national body groups as they review this proposed International Standard. Jim is the Senior Adobe PDF Platform Architect that led this effort.