Shipunov • PDF is not enough TAXON 63 (1) • February 2014: 134–135 We need at least two baskets for our eggs: PDF alone is not enough for e-publication Alexey Shipunov Minot State University, 500 University Ave W, Minot, North Dakota 58707, U.S.A.;
[email protected] DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/631.8 The Melbourne Code (McNeill & al., 2012; see also Knapp I would therefore suggest that consideration be given to & al., 2011) states (Art. 29.1) that publication can be “effected amending Art. 29.1 so that it would require electronic publica- by distribution … of electronic material in Portable Document tion to be done in two formats (for example, PDF and some- Format …” Thus, only PDF, and not other formats, is accept- thing else). Another possible solution can be found in the re- able for effective electronic publication. I do not think that this cently amended (see International Commission on Zoological is appropriate. Nomenclature, 2012; Zhang, 2012) International Code of Zoo- PDF has become exceptionally popular (I would say, over- logical Nomenclature (International Commission of Zoological popular) not only because it presents an easy way of retaining Nomenclature, 1999) where a given format is not required. the original layout of a document produced by many kinds Instead, requirements (“widely accessible electronic copies of software, but also because it is the product of a large mul- with fixed content and layout”) are provided for acceptable tinational company, Adobe Systems, which has extensively effective electronic publication, with PDF/A being given as a marketed it. With the rise of PDF, the use of other formats has format that meets these requirements.