> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of Tamas Rudnai
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:27 AM
>
> Well, PDF was invented by Adobe (as well as PostScript if I
> remember well). It is the same as for 'DOC' format you have
> to use WinWord -- well, now you can import it with numerous

PDF is an open standard, Word DOC is a proprietary standard.

The PDF format has always been a freely available standard from Adobe. You
can get the recent standards documents here:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html
FYI - PDF v1.3 = Acrobat 4 ... PDF v1.6 = Acrobat 7

AFAIK - Microsoft does not openly publish format standard's for the Word DOC
format.

Paul

> of different office applications such as OpenOffice, but it
> does not look like the very same. BTW with OpenOffice you
> can create PDF documents even with links, so it is not just
> a PDF printerdriver.
>
> Tamas





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