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Portable document format (PDF) files remain a popular choice for business documents ranging from contracts and forms to manuals and reports, so there's a good chance you need to open them often.

Earlier this week, Microsoft Office standards chief Jim Thatcher quietly announced that Microsoft would add ”two additional formats for use: Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2. … [and] ...

In Office 2013, Microsoft was compelled to support the true ODF format as well as the PDF format. Here's how open source won In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft’s manager for Office standards ...

Learn about different PDF formats, including PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/E. Choose the right format for your official documents ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Mar. 2014 and the video tutorial for this article published Dec. 2018; while this program might look a little different, the steps shown in this ...

The software Google's browser uses to show PDF files has been proprietary for years, but now it's an open-source project called PDFium that others can scrutinize or use themselves. Stephen Shankland ...

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