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Microsoft to support PDF in Office 12

Microsoft will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe PDF format with Office 12, a company product manager said on Saturday. Read more »

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HTML 5: A change in course... straight for the iceberg

The W3C recently released a working draft specification for HTML 5. In its current iteration, this is the worst specification I have ever read. Read more »

Determining a standard screen resolution for your application

If you're trying to decide whether to use a screen resolution higher than 800x600, there are many factors -- such as the preferences of your target audience -- to consider before making that move. Read more »

The evolution of a design

As developers, we're always striving to produce modular, easily extended designs. Unfortunately, we often don't know whether we've succeeded until the implementation is complete and we're asked to change something. Read more »

Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world

Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. Read more »

Print on all Java platforms with JPS

Java Print Service (JPS) allows you to print even on very size-limited platforms such as J2ME; it also supports standard Java 2D graphics. Learn how to organise printing with this API. Read more »

Extract high quality MapPoint images using VB.NET

Extracting a quality MapPoint image requires some programmatic footwork via Microsoft Office Document Imaging and the .NET Framework. Read more »

Adapt to your audience with CSS media types

The CSS media type provides the functionality to build Web applications whose presentation may vary with its target media. Read more »

Get more accessible with CSS

Poorly written HTML may render sites inaccessible to some visitors. Find out how separating presentation from content with CSS can help. Read more »

A print alternative without the extra work

Providing printer-friendly versions of your content used to mean creating a separate copy of the content designed specifically for the print device. Thanks to cascading style sheets, there's a better way. Read more »

Review: Reporting for duty

In this round-up of some of the most popular reporting tools for developers, we put these tools to the test to see how they stack up against real-world scenarios. Read more »

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