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Conversion & Document Formats: Backfile Conversion And Format Issues For Information Stored In Digital Archives
White Papers This white paper addresses the issues, which arise when considering the conversion of existing physical archives that contain documents of different formats and types into electronic format. These issues are broad in nature including the logistics...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
ECMA Approves Microsoft Document Format
News A vote to make Microsoft Office document formats an international standard was approved on Thursday, according to a Microsoft representative. At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML — a set...
[December 8, 2006, 8:30]
Office Document Format Adopted As An International Standard
Talkback They should have greased enough palms, or made enough threats by now to get it passed.
[January 23, 2008, 12:39]
ISO Credibility
Talkback IMHO, ISO has been terribly damaged by this document format war. Think about why it is that both Ecma and OASIS sought to have their format proposals approved by ISO? The document wars are just the tip of the iceberg.
[March 3, 2008, 18:13]
AdvDigester
Downloads AdvDigester digests a document using format specifications (headings, font colors, styles) and using special patterns (URLs, e-mail addresses, specific words, regular expressions) or using built-in modules (table exractor, image extractor, track...
[August 15, 2005, 17:46]
Plot2PDF
Downloads Plot2PDF converts technical drawings to Adobes PDF (Portable Document Format). Plot2PDF reads: HP-GL (every CAD program can plot to a HP DesignJet 750C and redirect the output in to a file, a plot file has a paper size, the right line colors and...
[October 25, 2007, 16:16]
Adobe Facing E-document Competition
News Adobe Systems' portable document format, long a de facto Internet standard, is under fire from competitors looking to muscle in on the electronic document market. Autodesk, the leading maker of drafting software for architectural and engineering...
[September 19, 2003, 15:35]
Adobe Seeks Formal Standardisation For PDF
News Adobe Systems on Monday is expected 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.
[January 29, 2007, 7:59]
New Zealand OOXML Rejection 'not Final'
News New Zealand has rejected Microsoft's proposal to fast track its Office Open XML document format as an ISO standard, but it may change its vote if certain concerns are addressed. Grant Thomas, chief operating officer for Standards New Zealand, said...
[September 3, 2007, 8:54]
Office Open XML Could Stymie OpenDocument's Progress
News Microsoft's move to make its Open XML document format an international standard could hobble the uptake of OpenDocument, the OASIS-approved document format that is supported by Sun. Earlier this month, Microsoft said it would be submitting its Open...
[December 2, 2005, 15:20]
Report Backs PDF Variant For Long-term Archiving
News The UK's National Archives has welcomed a report that backs a variant of Adobe's portable document format standard as a reliable way of preserving documents for future use. Although the report addresses many rival document formats, including the...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
Massachusetts To Use Both Open XML And ODF
News The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to adopt both OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's rival Office Open XML document format. In a letter posted by the US state's IT division on Wednesday, Henry Dormitzer, undersecretary of administration and...
[August 2, 2007, 18:20]
Not Really...
Talkback ODF is a document format, by no stretch of the imagination does it "provide backward compatibility" as implied by the Microsoft representative. No, of course not, it's a format and as such can opened up in Adobe Reader, OpenOffice and numerous...
[January 29, 2008, 16:21]
OOXML Expert: ODF Standard Is Broken
News Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of the process to standardise Office Open XML (OOXML), posted a blog this week reporting the results of tests which he claims reveal that OpenOffice documents do not conform to the International...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
OOXML Expert: ODF Flaws Remain
News Experts have defended the Open Document Format standard against suggestions that its schema is broken, but the critic who highlighted the alleged flaws has defended his position. Alex Brown, a major contributor to the progress of the ODF's...
[May 6, 2008, 17:18]
ABC Amber EarthLink Converter
Downloads ABC Amber EarthLink Converter is a powerful and very useful tool that converts your emails from EarthLink MailBox to any document format (PDF, HTML, CHM, RTF, HLP, TXT, DOC, XLS, MDB, etc.easily and quickly.
[December 20, 2007, 14:01]
Microsoft Office Open XML Gets US Knockback
News An open office document format developed by Microsoft has received a major setback in achieving a certification which would make it more widely accepted as a true technology standard. OOXML has strong support from Microsoft, and is a rival to the...
[July 17, 2007, 18:39]
Solidata PDF Writer
Downloads Easy-to-use and free PDF (Portable Document Format) creation tool for Windows. This software installs an additional 'virtual' printer which can be used to save PDF (Portable Document Format) files directly from Word, Excel or any other Windows...
[October 15, 2007, 22:16]
South African Government Adopts ODF
News The South African government said on Tuesday that it is to adopt Open Document Format as its preferred standard for software interoperability. Open Document Format (ODF) is a file format used for office documents such as as word processing...
[October 26, 2007, 13:54]
Microsoft: Governments Demanded OOXML
News The Office Open XML document format exists purely because governments demanded it, according to Microsoft, which is hoping the format will become an international standard by the end of this month. Speaking to ZDNet Australia last week, Microsoft's...
[February 11, 2008, 7:56]
