Comments for Standards at Adobe http://blogs.adobe.com/standards Collaborating to improve our customers’ experience through interoperability and innovation Wed, 08 May 2013 10:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on OpenCL Enables More Compelling and Efficient Applications by Why Adobe Cares About OpenCL | LEAP Conference http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/05/03/opencl-enables-more-compelling-and-efficient-applications/#comment-2076 Why Adobe Cares About OpenCL | LEAP Conference Wed, 08 May 2013 10:51:34 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=286#comment-2076 [...] Read the Full Article on Adobe’s Blog Site [...]

]]> Comment on OpenCL Enables More Compelling and Efficient Applications by Eric Berdahl http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/05/03/opencl-enables-more-compelling-and-efficient-applications/#comment-2057 Eric Berdahl Mon, 06 May 2013 21:26:13 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=286#comment-2057 Like you, we would also like to see OpenCL available across a wider variety of platforms and devices, for essentially the same reasons discussed in the main article. That is, we want to be able to easily write great software that runs well on the widest variety of devices. That goal is much easier to achieve when an open standard is implemented on the widest variety of devices. Like you, we hope that Adobe’s presence in the OpenCL community and influence with OpenCL vendors will lead to wider deployment.

With respect to your question about C++ AMP, I, personally, find it an interesting model for parallel programming that is more expressive than many of the lower-level APIs available on various platforms. Unfortunately, C++ AMP suffers from the fatal problem, common to many of the higher-level parallel programming paradigms, that it is essentially available from a single vendor. This narrow deployment makes C++ AMP and other single-vendor solutions relatively expensive for ISVs in general (and Adobe in particular) to leverage within our products. By comparison, an open, high level, highly expressive parallel programming system with broad vendor support would be very interesting.

]]> Comment on OpenCL Enables More Compelling and Efficient Applications by Marc Driftmeyer http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/05/03/opencl-enables-more-compelling-and-efficient-applications/#comment-2031 Marc Driftmeyer Fri, 03 May 2013 23:42:29 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=286#comment-2031 It’s shocking how you manage to cite OpenCL with various vendors and not once mention the vendor that created it: Apple.
I see as a NeXT/Apple alumnus things never really change at Adobe and its relationship with all matters of Apple.

]]> Comment on OpenCL Enables More Compelling and Efficient Applications by rahul http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/05/03/opencl-enables-more-compelling-and-efficient-applications/#comment-2030 rahul Fri, 03 May 2013 21:10:56 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=286#comment-2030 Great to see Adobe actively supporting OpenCL. Now I just hope that OpenCL comes to more platforms (such as iOS and Android) and more hardware vendors start providing working OpenCL drivers in consumer devices. It has been frustrating to see so many hardware companies claim that they support OpenCL, but then refuse to ship drivers to consumers. I hope that the involvement of big ISVs like Adobe will help convince everyone to pay more attention to OpenCL. GPU computing has been held back severely (outside of HPC) due to lack of widely adopted standards.

A related question: Can you potentially shed some light on your view of C++ AMP? I personally quite like AMP quite a bit.

]]> Comment on The Role of PDF and Open Data by James King http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/04/19/the-role-of-pdf-and-open-data/#comment-1858 James King Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:15:09 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=280#comment-1858 Barbara: I, too, love PDF. This June with be the 20th anniversary of PDF, invented to support Adobe’s Acrobat product line. So, yes, it has been around for a long time. I think it does outstandingly well as a universal and portable presentation format. Basic PDF is natively supported by iOS (iPad and iPhone) and there are now several quality PDF viewers available for most mobile devices. The number of extra features that those viewers support (forms, digital signatures, reflow) is improving everyday. I would be interested to hear directly from you as to what your most recent obstacle has been.

The PDF ISO standard (introduced in July 2008 as ISO 32000) does define embedded video, flash, 3D, etc. and Adobe’s products support those features (not everything on mobile as you noted). A lot of work has gone into InDesign to produce magazines for mobile devices and many, if not most, of the pages in those magazines are PDF. A large percentage of the online magazines for mobile are developed and delivered by this InDesign technology. InDesign along with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop do support creation of PDF files. Either you are thinking of something beyond what they do or are unfamiliar with what they DO do.

ISO will be evolving PDF further and has been working on PDF 2.0 for several years. The current ISO 32000-1 is PDF 1.7. As you might expect, Adobe has been a strong supporter and contributor to the ISO work. We are always constantly striving to improve our products that support PDF. Again, if you send me a direct note with more specific wishes, maybe we can look into pushing them forward.

Jim King

]]> Comment on Takeaways from the 14th Annual Privacy and Security Conference by chinese delivery http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/02/23/takeaways-from-the-14th-annual-privacy-and-security-conference/#comment-1828 chinese delivery Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:02:13 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=226#comment-1828 Its such as you read my thoughts! You seem to know a lot about this, like
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]]> Comment on The Role of PDF and Open Data by Barbara http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/04/19/the-role-of-pdf-and-open-data/#comment-1827 Barbara Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:38:04 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=280#comment-1827 While PDF (and your support of it) has been around for a long time and does evolve, its frustrating to try to use PDF as a universally portable format and run into obstacle after obstacle. Feature sets that have been long promoted are not supported on iPad and mobile computing devices. I’d like to be be able to use PDF as if it were a presentation delivery tool, but it needs something like (real) animation and embedded HTML5 support. And creation tools – like InDesign – should really be supportive of CREATing PDF documents and components. I’m an avid user of all the Adobe products including Flash, InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop. I love PDF. I am looking forward to Adobe evolving PDF.

]]> Comment on Adobe’s ECMA TC-39 Involvement by Rick Waldron http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/03/21/adobes-ecma-tc-39-involvement/#comment-1547 Rick Waldron Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:17:53 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=251#comment-1547 John, I’ve added a link to the meeting notes https://github.com/rwldrn/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-03/mar-12.md#adobe

]]> Comment on W3C Web Platforms Docs: A Standards Perspective by 11.26.2012///Create the Web Tour featuring Christophe Coenraets and Andrew Trice of Adobe @ Kaltura HQ | StartUpSay! http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2012/10/16/w3c-web-platforms-docs-a-standards-perspective/#comment-1068 11.26.2012///Create the Web Tour featuring Christophe Coenraets and Andrew Trice of Adobe @ Kaltura HQ | StartUpSay! Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:54:48 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=141#comment-1068 [...] Adobe is working on new W3C specs to help designers create new content on the web and across devices. The W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium and they enforce compatibility among adopting standards defined by the W3C. The group tries to have a standardized language for websites on the internet. [...]

]]> Comment on W3C Web Platforms Docs: A Standards Perspective by Anthony http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2012/10/16/w3c-web-platforms-docs-a-standards-perspective/#comment-44 Anthony Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:42:38 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/?p=141#comment-44 Nice read, thanks Cragill

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