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OpenDocument standard reaches state government



On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:00:33PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> On Friday 23 September 2005 11:47 am, Bob BLU wrote:
> >
> > You can read the docs here:
> >
> >         http://www.mass.gov/Aitd/
> >
> > PDF is considered ok.  Justification from the FAQ:
>
> The problem with PDF is that Adobe provides free readers, but that it
> cannot be used as a word processor file.

Not really a problem, PDF was not engineered for this purpose.

This is what OpenDocument is for.

-David




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