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AIIM to Facilitate ISO Standards Process for Leading Electronic Document Format

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 29, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

PDF has become a de facto global standard for more secure and dependable information exchange since Adobe published the complete PDF specification in 1993. Both government and private industry have come to rely on PDF for the volumes of electronic records that need to be more securely and reliably shared, managed, and in some cases preserved for generations. Since 1995 Adobe has participated in various working groups that develop technical specifications for publication by ISO and worked within the ISO process to deliver specialized subsets of PDF as standards for specific industries and functions. Today, PDF for Archive (PDF/A) and PDF for Exchange (PDF/X) are ISO standards, and PDF for Engineering (PDF/E) and PDF for Universal Access (PDF/UA) are proposed standards. Additionally, PDF for Healthcare (PDF/H) is an AIIM proposed Best Practice Guide. AIIM serves as the administrator for PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/UA and PDF/H.

“Today’s announcement is the next logical step in the evolution of PDF from de facto standard to a formal, de jure standard,” said Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect at Adobe. “By releasing the full PDF specification for ISO standardization, we are reinforcing our commitment to openness. As governments and organizations increasingly request open formats, maintenance of the PDF specification by an external and participatory organization will help continue to drive innovation and expand the rich PDF ecosystem that has evolved over the past 15 years.”

The email interface

Every mailing list has a set of email addresses to which messages can be sent. There’s always one address for posting messages to the list, one address to which bounces are sent, and addresses for processing email commands. For the Framers mailing list called framers@lists.frameusers.com, you’d find these addresses:

framers@lists.frameusers.com – this is the email address people should use for new postings to the list.

framers-join@lists.frameusers.com – by sending a message to this address, a new member can request subscription to the list. Both the Subject: header and body of such a message are ignored. Note that framers-subscribe@lists.frameusers.com is an alias for the -join address.

framers-leave@lists.frameusers.com – by sending a message to this address, a member can request unsubscription from the list. As with the -join address, the Subject: header and body of the message is ignored. Note that framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com is an alias for the -leave address.

framers-owner@lists.frameusers.com – This address reaches the list owner and list moderators directly. This is the address you use if you need to contact the person or people in charge.

framers-request@lists.frameusers.com – This address reaches a mail robot which processes email commands that can be used to set member subscription options, as well as process other commands. A list of members’ email commands is provided in Appendix A.

framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com – This address is used in Mailman’s automatic bounce processing.

framers-confirm@lists.frameusers.com – This address is used for processing confirmation messages for subscription and unsubscription requests.

There’s also an ADMIN address which also reaches the list administrators – listadmin@frameusers.com.

For changing options, we use the LISTNAME-request address (for example, framers-request@lists.frameusers.com).

Commands can appear in the subject line or the body of the message. Each command should be on a separate line. If your mail program automatically appends a signature to your messages, you may want to put the word “end” (without the quotes) on a separate line after your other commands. The end command tells Mailman not to process the email after that point.
The most important command is probably the “help” command, since it makes Mailman return a message full of useful information about the email commands and directions to the web interface.