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Originally Posted by rkomar
Being able to read all potential office documents and converting them to PDF on the device sounds like a gigantic and risky software undertaking, especially when some document formats aren't even standardized. It makes more sense to just export the office document to PDF using the native application that created it.
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but ms office documents are standardized. current formats are even open (based on xml). this was actually put in place starting with office 2007. with knowledge of xml, a coder could actually put together a word document without actually having ms word installed. and ms office is the most widely used office package in the world.