Tag: PDF FILE

Have you ever wondered why you can't simply author PDF files directly in a word processor? Most word processors like Microsoft Word use their own proprietary format, or a standard format like RTF. But Adobe's PDF format is the recognized standard in cross-platform page layout file formats; if you send someone a PDF file, you can be virtually guaranteed that they will be able to open and view it. ...

When I started beta testing Office 2007, one of the things that I initially noticed was that the ability to save a document as a PDF was baked right in. "Finally!" I thought to myself; this is something Apple has been doing in the operating system forever, and it just makes sense. Of course, that wasn't the end of it. Adobe caught wind of the situation, and decided to make life uncomfortable for ...