Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF

siDDis writes “Earlier that year Slashdot mentioned that Norway was moving towards mandatory use of ODF and PDF. Now it’s official: the Norwegian government has mandated the use of open document formats from January 1st, 2009. There are three formats that have been mandated for all documentation within authorities, users and partners. HTML for all public info on the Web, PDF for

all documents where layout needs to be preserved and ODF for all documents that the recipient is supposed to be able to edit. Documents may additionally be published in other formats, but they must always be available in either ODF or PDF.”

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