[LINK] PDF standard and ODF support

[David Lochrin]

Many Linkers may be aware of it already, but I was recently surprised to find that the PDF format is now an ISO/IEC standard - ISO 32000-1:2008.  See http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51502

I understand also that Microsoft Office-2007 SP2 supports ODF (ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0).  Does any Linker have experience with exchanging word-processed documents or spreadsheets between Office-2007 and OpenOffice?

David

P.S.  Having recently tangled with Windows-7 I had to find a PDF reader, and there's a nice little open-source package known as "Evince" which runs on Windows - see http://live.gnome.org/Evince  However the version I downloaded doesn't yet seem to support the "hand" for grabbing and moving a document on the screen, which is a pity IMO.