Fw: Re: legal concerns (about PDF format in OOo)

["Ossama Khayat" <ossama at linuxmail dot org>]

Salam,
I though this would be of interest to you, specially those people who deal with this format and living in countries where the government applies these rules.

regards,
Ossama Khayat

[Quoted]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Long" <bob at oblong dot com dot au>
>JohnT <jrt at informatics dot net> typed:
> I was pleased that OpenOffice.org included ability
> to make PDF files in its latest release, BUT.....
> What about the legality of doing so? Apparently 
> Adobe has a lot of copyrights and patents related
> to its PDF-producing and PDF-reading software. I
> would like assurances that OpenOffice.org is not
> putting itself in legal difficulty by including the
> ability to write a PDF file.

Read what Adobe themselves say:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html

"An open file format specification, PDF is available
to anyone who wants to develop tools to create, view,
or manipulate PDF documents."

Bob Long
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