The most common documents are made using "Office" software. like Microsoft Office and Open Office. The commonest way of archiving and sharing formatted documents is the de facto portable document format or pdf from Adobe.
Recently both types of document have realized the value of making these into open standards, allowing them to be widely used and shared. Their further development will also be enhanced as a result.
OASIS developed the Open Document Format (ODF), now accepted as and ISO and IEC International Standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006, and PDF is to become an ISO standard. Adobe has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM, in turn, will start working on making PDF an ISO standard. The sharing and use of digital documents will be far easier from now on.
Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/index.html is capable of creating and reading and editing ODF. It can create PDF files from the ODF files. The latest version of Open Office 2.3 also allows extensions, including a very impressive Reports Builder, for the creation of database reports from Base. Base can open files from a variety of database programs including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft Access. It uses the HSQL database engine.
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