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  • Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

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

  • 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).

  • 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).

  • XML--Rodney, are we there yet?

    After initially creating a lot of buzz in the late days of the dot-com boom, XML seemed in danger of becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of the technology world. Now, it appears that XML might finally be getting the respect it deserves in the marketplace.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • Opening up the Office

    Microsoft says beta testing for Office 12 begins in November. Also, the company gets 120,000 requests a month from people who want to save their Office documents in PDF format, making it one of the most requested features.

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Reviews (11)

  • 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.

  • Make your own PDF: Nitro PDF vs. Adobe Acrobat 7.0

    To offer print-ready forms, brochures, and booklets on a Web site, you must create documents in the portable document format (PDF).

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