[quote post=”2283″]It looks to me that MS Office devs should start looking for new jobs[/quote]

Nah, they will just release Office 2008 with “extended” OOXML support which will make documents look broken on OO.o. They are really good at this game – they have been doing this for years. ;)

By the way, you probably saw this, but the next version of OO.org will have pdf import. In addition to pdf creation built into OO.org, the ability to edit pdf files should really give others a good reason to dump MS office. Add to that SVN, automatic wiki markup, ooxml support, enhanced latex, and extensions (they’ve already got one for google docs integration). Oh yeah, and an email/calendar support, and the calendar can interface with iCal, google calendar and much more. It looks to me that MS Office devs should start looking for new jobs :)

Not wholly related to PDFs, but interesting.

All hail to Foxit, thanks to them I can finally stop worrying about every link I click turning out to be a pdf in disguise.

And yes… these stories are a tad sad… someone really needs to go around with a computer-literacy stick and whack ’em all until they bleed.

It is funny how people view PDFs and file formats in general. In my civil procedure law class we were talking about electronic discovery and some student suggested you could hose the other party (and protect yourself) by sending PDFs because they’re unsearchable, uneditable, and unforgable. Everyone laughed & agreed.

I had a hard time not raising my hand and calling everyone an idiot.

Another time a coworker was complaining about adobe reader taking over everything (with the update manager, the slow load times, & freezing her browser). She was floored when I showed her foxit – “does adobe allow this? Are you sure this isn’t illegal?” Yikes.

Or maybe it’s that 5 minute slpash screen which insists on telling you exactly which plugin it is loading at the time. It’s hypnotic! lol

hahaha…reading this brought back so many “great” memories. :)

I think it might be their logo that’s mesmerizing them…the red swirly A…you must obey the logo and convert all of your files into PDFs! lol