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Tag Archives: PDF
Update on sharing documents
Three years ago (!) I wrote a post called “How do you share documents?” where I essentially said “When you give documents to others that you do not expect them to change, use PDF. If they need an updatable form, … Continue reading
ODF Alliance offers recommendations to Obama administration
Following on the heels of yesterday’s set of open standards recommendations to the Obama administration by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, the Open Document Format Alliance has offered its own recommendations in the area of open standards … Continue reading
Why not ODF?
In my previous blog entry about the most recent ODF Alliance newsletter, I parenthetically included a sentence “Why not ODF?” with a link to an older blog entry. I got a couple of comments and emails explaining why it was … Continue reading
Sharing documents, a year later
I happened to go back and look at what I blogged about a year ago, and I was surprised that twelve months had passed since I wrote the piece called “How do you share documents?”. In it, I recommended that … Continue reading
Why OOXML will ultimately fail
In this industry there are short term wins and loses, and there are long term wins and losses. A small victory today for something you are championing can be matched with a subsequent setback somewhere else. The opposite is true … Continue reading
links for 2007-03-01
Mathematics and Architecture In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math – New York Times “In the beauty and geometric complexity of tile mosaics on walls of medieval Islamic buildings, scientists have recognized patterns suggesting that the designers had made a … Continue reading
Adobe brings PDF fully to the external open standards process
Duane Nickull of Adobe has just announced that they are bringing PDF fully to the open standards process via AIIM and ISO. This effort will unify all the subprojects around standardizing parts of PDF (like PDF A for archivists) and … Continue reading
ODF is starting to take hold in Argentina
We have word from Argentina that ODF has been adopted by the Government of Misiones (a province in the north-east of Argentina): En consecuencia, se adoptan los siguientes formatos para documentos electr�nicos ofim�ticos: * El formato OpenDocument para los documentos … Continue reading
PDF and accessibility
About a month ago, a government legislator asked me about PDF and accessibility. I told him what I knew about tagging these files with structural information, made a mental note to do a blog entry about it, and then promptly … Continue reading
ODF project: Online presentations via SVG
Here’s an idea for an open source project: take an arbitrary ODF file containing a presentation and translate it into a series of linked HTML pages containing SVG for all or most of the graphics and text. That is, I … Continue reading
links for 2006-11-20
Semantic Web HR-XML blog – Web 3.0 The next big thing. Again. (tags: semanticweb) Algorithms and Animations The Sorting Algorithm Demo “The animations on this page illustrate a number of different sequential and parallel sorting algorithms.” (tags: algorithms sorting programming … Continue reading
links for 2006-09-19
PDF Adobe Builds on Acrobat Strengths “eWEEK Labs Review: With Acrobat 8 Professional Beta 1, Adobe makes it even easier for users to create, share and secure documents.” (tags: adobe acrobat pdf) Nuance – PDF Solutions (tags: pdf) OpenOffice conference … Continue reading
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links for 2006-07-10
Lotus Notes on Linux CRN | IBM To Release Full Notes For Linux “A Notes client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3, will be available on July 24, with a version for Novell SUSE Linux Desktop for Enterprise … Continue reading
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Tagged browser, conference, Firefox, Linux, OpenOffice.org, PDF
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Online office apps, continued
Over in his ZDNet blog, David Berlind continues the distributed discussion around online office productivity apps, this time keeping the discussion to presentation software. He picks up the discussion by CNet’s Rafe Needleman that I linked to last Friday. David … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-03
Ubuntu’s Dapper Drake is one impressive Linux distro “Perhaps the most widely anticipated Linux distribution of the year finally arrived on June 1: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Service), aka Dapper Drake.” (tags: linux ubuntu) Microsoft, Adobe squabble over PDF … Continue reading
How do you share documents?
I want to discuss how documents, specifically text documents versus spreadsheets or presentations, are shared. In particular, I think people often make a mistake when they send word processor documents around. Let me explain. In the beginning, people created documents … Continue reading
Presentation file sizes
First off, realize that in what I’m about to say, your mileage may vary. Nevertheless, I think this is interesting. Last week I did an analyst presentation and I used a deck that had no builds in it – just … Continue reading
