November 2007

The Myth Of OOXML Adoption

November 30, 2007

“Politics aside, there are 400 million users of the Office Open format, and we basically just recognized reality.” This quote by the retired Secretary General of Ecma, Jan van den Beld, explaining why it is so important to standardize OOXML. Anyone else want to recognize reality? Maybe I can help. Two questions to consider: 1) [...]

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PDF, The Waste Land, and Monica’s Blue Dress

November 21, 2007

Adobe’s PDF Architect, James King, has recently started an “Inside PDF” blog which is well worth subscribing to. I’d especially draw your attention to his post “Submission of PDF to ISO” which has much useful information on the process they are going through in ISO, a process that is slightly different than that used by [...]

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Document Format FUD: A Guide for the Perplexed

November 18, 2007

I’ve decided to put together a list of misconceptions that I hear, generally on the topic of document formats. I’ll try to update this list to keep it current, with the most recent entries at the top. Readers are invited to submit the FUD they observe as comments, and I’ll include it where I can. [...]

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