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] ...

Adobe Acrobat is widely used in business, and documents ranging from brochures to company reports are often shared in Acrobat's PDF file format. By default, Acrobat displays Web-based PDF documents ...

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 ...

The Portable Document Format makes it possible for you to open and view documents, no matter what operating system, software or computer you have. To make this happen in Yahoo Mail, the email program ...

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 ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

You can save a Notepad file as PDF by using Microsoft Print to PDF feature. It is a built-in feature in Windows that lets users convert their documents from one format into PDF. This will save your ...

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 ...

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It’s been more than 25 years that PDF files have been around, and they’re not going anywhere anytime soon. As PDFs are the most popular format for presentations and document sharing, they are heavily ...