Subj : Re: Acrobat ?
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 09:39 am

-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

 JP>     Hello Alan, nice talking to you !

 AZ> You only have it in Word because you've install Acrobat.... Word
 AZ> Perfect and OpenOffice.org/StarOffice have the capability built in
 AZ> because Adobe opened up the PDF spec a few years ago.

 JP>         This was pointed out to me by a very learned user here. And
 JP>   also, I noticed that there are many new app coming out that will do
 JP>   .pdf even .pdf to Word.txt or .doc. What has happened to the
 JP>   copyright to Adobe ? Are these work-arounds, are they legal ?

Like I said, Adobe opened up the PDF spec, making it easier (and legal) for 
everybody and their cat to develop programs that created and worked with PDF 
files.

PDF is a variation on Postscript; so the free CutePDF (which I use) works with 
the open source GhostScript Postscript interpreter.
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