Paul Hutchinson wrote:

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

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

Not quite true:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/nov05/11-21EcmaPR.mspx

Gerhard

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