PDF 2.0 is mostly a cleanup of the existing spec, plus a few minor new features. Adobe’s Public Patent License is similar to AOMedia’s AV1 approach to patents - the patent owners have granted royalty-free usage. However, AV1 also suffers from competing claims of patent ownership from a non-member of AOMedia. I’m not aware of any such claim relating to PDF, and as far as I know no PDF documents have any patent issues, and there are no royalties required to create PDF documents or tools.
I don’t think there’s a conflict between PDF being a publishing format and having great tools for producing that format. The editing can be done to an intermediate application file format (e.g. reStructuredText, or OpenDocument Text, or Microsoft Visio), with the result rendered to PDF.
Oh and that’s unfortunate to hear the mobile Firefox experience is poor. I note there’s a project to add pdf.js support - this is the kind of thing I mean by improving PDF support.
I don’t think there’s a conflict between PDF being a publishing format and having great tools for producing that format. The editing can be done to an intermediate application file format (e.g. reStructuredText, or OpenDocument Text, or Microsoft Visio), with the result rendered to PDF.
Oh and that’s unfortunate to hear the mobile Firefox experience is poor. I note there’s a project to add pdf.js support - this is the kind of thing I mean by improving PDF support.