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August 27, 2007
PDF's importance
PDF's importance: Mary Jo Foley has a stat I haven't seen elsewhere, about how institutions and enterprise work with documents today: "IDC asked: 'Which document standards are in use in your organization today?' From the chart on page 10 of the report it looks like that in the United States: Adobe PDF, close to 75 percent; OOXML, about 5 percent; and ODF, about 2 percent. For Europe: PDF, about same as United States; OOXML, about 25 percent; and ODF, about 4 percent. I wouldn't call 5 percent, or even 25 percent, as being dominant. PDF's 75 percent is dominant." (I saw another stat today, in internal email, that did a consumer audit for Adobe Reader, and saw that v8.0 had over a third consumer viewability within nine months of release, and just about 80% had either v7.0 or better; I haven't heard word back yet about whether the whole presentation will be published on the site, but no one has told me it's an only-inside-Adobe-secret either.... ;-)
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 27, 2007 02:40 PM
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Ah ok, another MS funded report. But in any case, it is easy to imagine and perceive PDF as the most popular format used today, but I wonder how it is possible to compare the PDF format to any other. I mean, PDF is a read-only format, there is no program (with the notable exception of Adobe Illustrator, but hard to use it as a Word Processor or Spreadsheet) that can modify a PDF file, while, for example a ODF or OOXML can stilll be read back by their originators and eventually modified, isn't a bit like comparing apples with oranges?
[jd sez: I agree; I'd like to know how the question was phrased.]
Posted by: Emanuele Cipolloni at August 28, 2007 12:01 AM