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In the article, it was stated that “The PDF format is effectively a standard, accessible by many applications…”.

In fact, PDF is an ISO standard, not effectively a standard. More specifically, Adobe donated PDF to ISO in 2008. ISO Technical Committee 170 published the ISO PDF standard as ISO 32000-1.

There are also ISO PDF subset standards overseen by ISO TC170 and ISO TC130 (for PDF for printing) including PDF/A (archiving), PDF/E (engineering), PDF/UA (universal access), PDF/X (blind exchange for printing and publishing), and PDF/VT (variable data publishing).

Current PDF “readers” are capable of opening, reading, printing, and otherwise manipulating PDF files that dated back to PDF 1.0 as created by Adobe Acrobat back in 1994.

– Dov Isaacs (Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems Incorporated)

Compatibility View, a single click on an icon in the address bar, should take care of that by displaying the page as if you were using an earlier version of Internet Explorer.

Bruce

Nope, The compatibility view feature didn’t work except on a very few of the broken pages. Ironically, those were the same pages that required the compatiblity view setting with IE8.

– Dov

Although I respect the advise to move to IE9 from the perspective of better security, better performance, etc., the plain inconvenient truth is that very many websites that I need to use representing a wide number of areas on the webe that properly display, interact, and print with IE8 (finally after a while of incompatibilities compared to IE6 and IE7), simply don’t properly display, interact, and/or print with IE9.

I installed IE9 on one of my working systems (running on Windows 7 64-bit) and within a day reverted to IE8 simply because I couldn’t otherwise get any work done with IE9. And no, I wasn’t trying to use the 64-bit version of IE9.

– Dov