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Portable Document Format (PDF) Security Analysis and Malware Threats
White Papers Adobe Portable Document Format has become the most widespread and used document description format throughout the world. It is also a true programming language of its own, strongly dedicated to document creation and manipulation which has...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Microsoft backs document-format test tool
News Geman research institute Fraunhofer Fokus and Microsoft on Monday announced plans to build an online tool that will help organisations validate their documents against internationally recognised document-format standards.
[May 18, 2009, 16:36]
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]
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. Other document experts have responded to Brown's post, criticising...
[May 6, 2008, 17:18]
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]
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. People are forced to endure long waits for PDF documents to load in Adobe's free...
[September 19, 2003, 15:35]
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]
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. Organizations, particularly governmental ones, should standardize on published document formats for...
[January 29, 2008, 16:21]
CyberKeeper
Downloads Save document from MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel Save web link of web pages with your notes. Create project summary with document thumbnail on the fly. Save entire web page as original format. Save selected section of web page as original format.
[March 13, 2009, 4:15]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
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...
[September 2, 2005, 17:29]
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]
Pdf+ (for Series 80 Smartphones and Communicators)
Downloads Pdf+ (for Series 80 Smartphones and Communicators) is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. There is no need to convert a PDF document with your PC to a proprietary format, saving you much time, money and hassle.
[August 1, 2006, 8:00]
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]
ISO Credibility
Talkback IMHO, ISO has been terribly damaged by this document format war. The document wars are just the tip of the iceberg. Think about why it is that both Ecma and OASIS sought to have their format proposals approved by ISO?
[March 3, 2008, 18:13]
Consortium launched to support OpenDocument
News The Open Document Format for Office Applications, or OpenDocument, was developed by standards body OASIS. The Open Document Fellowship was launched on Monday to add momentum to what appears to be a growing movement to support the open standard for...
[October 10, 2005, 17:50]
Massachusetts ODF plan will use Office plug-in
News Massachusetts will begin using OpenDocument as the default document format later this year as planned, but it will be sticking with Microsoft Office in the near term, the state's top technology executive said.
[August 25, 2006, 17:35]
Irritate the User into Upgrading
Talkback Do you really wonder why they don't warn about the incompatible document format? What percentage of ordinary users do you think will either never find out about the "free" document format converter, or will not have the confidence or ability to...
[November 28, 2008, 8:13]
