• Well, there’s Acrobat. I think that the issue is that PDF is a deceptively complicated format. It’s basically a programming language for describing pages to print. So it’s not like parsing a JPG or something, you need a PDF interpreter. And I imagine the Adobe one is encumbered.

    • Probably the same reason it takes so long to come up with third party flash interpreters.

      I mean flash isn’t exactly new, but for the longest time there was only Adobe flash.