[Wolves] PDF

[david at codepoets.co.uk]

> A quick google later confirmed that according to a lot of sites the 
> PDF file format is the IP of Adobe.  I've had a good rummage through 
> the OOo Licensees and the OOo page to see if I can find any thing on 
> this.  So does anyone know how OpenOffice.org can include a PDF 
> printer in it's product for free, without getting into a majour 
> battle over copyright and patent?


pdf has been around for quite some time now, so hopefully if there were 
a patent
it would be soon expiring.

There are also the unix ps2pdf etc tools from ghostscript (?), as well 
as third
party pdf viewers (xpdf, ggv etc).

David.