Office killer- PDF as default word processing format

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  • Reply 41 of 42
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    Originally posted by MarkL

    There is a universal format. SGML.



    SGML isn't a universal format, its a meta-format for defining document formats.



    And in that role it's been replaced by XML (HTML -> XHTML, DocBook SGML -> DocBook XML) which is what's used for basically all new document formats, OpenOffice.org's, Apple Keynote's, even MSFT Office's.
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  • Reply 42 of 42
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    PDF should never have leeched out of prepress. It is big, controlled by one company, and I haven't seen any consumer apps that handle it well. It is non-standard. Argue all you want, I think it's great for making content and printing it, but as a medium I don't like it personally, it's large, and doesn't play nice with things like Office, Safari, or a few other apps I use from day to day, and it's just a PITA. Reader blows. I'm glad that guy came through with a PDF plugin for Safari but even then, it's buggy, the scroll wheel and Text Find function don't work, etc. Grr.
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