Adobe to Acquire Macromedia..

digitalSurgeon · April 27, 2005, 9:27am

Re: Adobe to Acquire Macromedia..

Computerworld reports that Microsoft will be including a new document format called ‘Metro’ with Longhorn. Apparently, Metro is intended to be a competitor to Adobe’s PDF and Postscript formats. The format will be open and available for royalty-free licensing, and will be based on XML. Can we expect Microsoft to do this right? If they do, I think it could be a good thing." Reader gsfprez is less optimistic: “… I noticed the main, and probably most important difference between old and busted PDF and new-hotness Metro (besides the Queer Eye styled name)… ‘We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology and make them available under license to printer manufacturers and software integrators worldwide.’ Yes, I can see it now - entire industries undoing their time-tested, battle hardend PDF-based workflows with free and open files all for the chance to use patented, pay-for-use Microsoft proprietary workflows, software, and files. Good luck with that, guys.”

haha, adobe can count it’s days now, i have always hated pdf’s they suck so badly.