Some Lessons on JDF --Waldman

JDF was developed by four of the most prominent companies in our industry—Adobe, Agfa, Heidelberg and MAN Roland. Much of it was based on prior work like Adobe's Portable Job Ticket Format (PJTF). Now here is the amazing part: These four companies made the format non-proprietary. In other words, anybody can use it. Is our industry altruistic or what?