{"id":831,"date":"2008-06-02T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-06-02T23:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:20:01","slug":"acrobatcom-office-buzzword-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/02\/acrobatcom-office-buzzword-review","title":{"rendered":"Acrobat.com Office, Buzzword Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding out that Adobe is the latest to jump on the online office bandwagon, I decided I need to try their service out. Working together, anywhere, is their tag line.<\/p>\n<p>First impressions? They provide a few fonts that look nice. There is document sharing built-in. You can also add comments on parts of documents &#8211; and this is a killer feature with the built-in sharing, I love how the way comments are displayed (they&#8217;re in your face).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Buzzword, with comments by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2546636189\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3151\/2546636189_ed64a24ebe_m.jpg?resize=240%2C145\" alt=\"Buzzword, with comments\" width=\"240\" height=\"145\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Comments being displayed in a Buzzword document (click for larger image)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What am I disappointed with? File formats. <strong>Not supporting ODF out of the box<\/strong>, is really silly. Exporting to PDF is nice, RTF is standard, .txt (so you lose the fonts), a zipped up HTML document, and Word (.doc), Word 2003 XML (.xml), and Word 2007 (.docx), only? Open standards, FAIL!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Adobe Buzzword, file formats by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2546626913\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3116\/2546626913_714d483cdb_m.jpg?resize=240%2C145\" alt=\"Adobe Buzzword, file formats\" width=\"240\" height=\"145\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Buzzword, not supporting a wide variety of common file format (click for larger image)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d try out the rest of the services, but I&#8217;m sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/health.acrobat.com\/\">Acrobat Health<\/a>, as it seems like they&#8217;re just a little overloaded now&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Acrobat.com%20Office%2C%20Buzzword%20Review&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F02%2Facrobatcom-office-buzzword-review&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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