Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.
Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.
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Adobe is launching an online community with a word processor and file sharing, while adding Flash and interactive maps to Acrobat 9.
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).
OpenOffice 2.4, which was released on Thursday, comes with an assortment of collaboratively engineered bug fixes and small, but significant, usability enhancements.
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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.
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.
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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