hi Sam,
* Sam Tuke samtuke@fsfe.org [2011-07-19 14:26:13 +0100]:
I think that it is wonderful that you are supporting Open Standards, such as PDF itself (ISO 32000-1) as well as the subset standards that have been developed against it (PDF/A, PDF/X, etc.).
However, you also seem to be promoting the use of PDF readers that do NOT support those standards that you've mentioned. NONE of the PDF readers that are promoted by the FSFE support ANY of those standards :(. Sure, they may read SOME set of PDF files, but they do NOT do it correctly (aka "as defined in the standard").
As such, perhaps your "sprint" would be more constructive in contacting and/or contributing to the open source projects in their support of open standards.
Leonard Rosenthol ISO Project Leader, PDF/A and PDF/E
I would go for: How should they be good if all government websites only advertise the other product for several years? If more people know about them and support them, they will improve.
But we also encourage people to participate in the development and with our activities we inform more people about the existence of them.
Regards, Matthias