Even in some of its earliest incarnations, the basis of the appeal of OpenOffice.org was the ability to convert files from any of their programs into space-saving PDFs that could be viewed by anyone with Adobe Acrobat. While this function remains today, it has been, of course, been duplicated by Microsoft, who made the PDF conversion possible in their Office 2007 suite.
However, one thing they haven’t been able to duplicate is the ability to edit PDFs, which OpenOffice, with the help of one handy extension, can do.
