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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Free PDF software, PDF readers, OpenOffice.org, Adobe Creative Suite, CUPS, Adobe Acrobat, Docudesk, Go-oo, LibreOffice, PDFCreator, Scribus, XeTeX, IText, Pdfvue, STDU Viewer, TCPDF, Preview, DoPDF, Foxit Reader, Adobe Digital Editions, PdfTeX, Pstoedit, LuaTeX, ReportLab, PDF Sign&Seal, PrimoPDF, Pdfescape, Qoppa PDF Libraries, Altsoft Xml2PDF, PDFedit, Podofo, PDF-XChange Viewer, Infix PDF Editor, Antiword, Virtual Image Printer driver, PDF Studio, Bullzip PDF Printer, Nuance PDF Reader, DigiSigner, BePDF, Pdftk, JPedal, Nitro PDF, GNU PDF, CC PDF Converter, Pdftotext, CutePDF, Fly SDK, LibHaru, QPDF, Pdf-parser, Pdfimages, Pdfrecycle. Excerpt: OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software and is written using its own GUI toolkit. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of June 2011, OpenOffice.org supports over 120 languages. As free software, users are free to download, modify, use and distribute OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org originated as StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office by providing a free and open alternative. OpenOffice.org was an open-source version of the StarOffice suite, with development sponsored primarily by Sun Microsystems. After acquiring Sun in 2010, Oracle Corporation stopped supporting commercial development and contributed the suite ...