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Originally Posted by rem736
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.
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Why put all that effort into parsing one word processor's output and translating it to PDF on the device, when the word processor can do that itself? You're bound to get it wrong on the device, you add to the cost of the device when the software development costs are factored in, you risk annoying everyone else who uses a different word processor, and you still just output an annotated PDF file at the end anyway. Sony have enough trouble producing a usable PDF application for the device, I don't see them taking on this gigantic software task just to save people the small effort of exporting their documents to PDF in their native applications.