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News (23)

• Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

  Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.

• Microsoft moves ahead on Xdocs

  The software giant is set to unveil more details about the controversial electronic forms software, an addition to the forthcoming Office 11, including a new name.

• PDF becomes ISO 32000 standard

  A 13 to 1 vote has set the Portable Document Format (PDF) on a course to become ISO 32000 standard (DIS).

• Adobe to send PDF to standards group

  Adobe Systems expected on Monday in the US to detail plans to submit its Portable Document Format specifications to the International Organization for Standardization, a body of particular importance to governments and large corporations.

• Office 2007 to support ODF and PDF

  Responding to pressure customers and governments, Microsoft has announced Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add support for the Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS).

Features and Case Studies (8)

• When standards don't apply

  A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.

• Microsoft, Adobe in document showdown?

  Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader software has become one of those rare birds in personal computing: a de facto standard that has nothing to do with industry giant Microsoft.

• Photos: Fresh features in OpenOffice 2.4

  OpenOffice 2.4, which was released on Thursday, comes with an assortment of collaboratively engineered bug fixes and small, but significant, usability enhancements.

• Microsoft and Adobe to square off?

  In digital documents, Web applications and image editing, Adobe has a healthy head start. But Microsoft is making some noise.

• Adobe versus the world

  CEO Bruce Chizen faces Microsoft on one flank and open-source on the other. Is he worried? Nope.

Reviews (11)

• Microsoft moves ahead on Xdocs

  The software giant is set to unveil more details about the controversial electronic forms software, an addition to the forthcoming Office 11, including a new name.

• Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (Beta)

  Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.

• Apple's Mac OS X

  Apple has announced Mac OS X, the new Macintosh operating system which combines the openness of UNIX with the broad applications base of Macintosh.

• Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

  For composing long PDF packages at an office that requires security and wants to use the new digital forms, Acrobat 8's got the goods, but it's overkill if you only seek to make short PDF files.

• Nitro PDF professional 4.91

  The vast majority of people with a need to create PDF files will be served more than adequately by this product, and the price gives it a handy head start over Adobe Acrobat.

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