Envoy (WordPerfect)
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In computing
, Envoy was a proprietary portable document
file format
marketed by WordPerfect
Corporation, created as a competitor for Acrobat Pro. It was introduced by Tumbleweed Communications Corporation
in 1993 and shipped with WordPerfect Office
in March 1994.
An Envoy file could be created by the use of a special printer driver
in WordPerfect. The resulting document could be viewed in a separate viewer application, the Envoy Distributable Viewer, which also worked as a web browser
plugin.
Unlike Adobe PDF, the file format was not publicly documented.
Envoy failed to make any headway against PDF, and is largely now unused. Some have reported success in reading Envoy documents by printing to PostScript
from the Envoy Distributable Viewer, then converting the PostScript file to a PDF.
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
, Envoy was a proprietary portable document
Document
The term document has multiple meanings in ordinary language and in scholarship. WordNet 3.1. lists four meanings :* document, written document, papers...
file format
File format
A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice-versa. There are different kinds of formats for...
marketed by WordPerfect
WordPerfect
WordPerfect is a word processing application, now owned by Corel.Bruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General Corp. minicomputer system in 1979...
Corporation, created as a competitor for Acrobat Pro. It was introduced by Tumbleweed Communications Corporation
Tumbleweed Communications
Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provided secure messaging and secure file transfer solutions for enterprise and government customers. Tumbleweed Communications merged with Axway in 2008....
in 1993 and shipped with WordPerfect Office
WordPerfect Office
WordPerfect Office is an office suite developed by Corel Corporation. As of March 2010, the latest version is WordPerfect Office X5 , which is available in three editions: Home & Student, Standard and Professional....
in March 1994.
An Envoy file could be created by the use of a special printer driver
Printer driver
In computers, a printer driver or a print processor is a piece of software that converts the data to be printed to the form specific to a printer...
in WordPerfect. The resulting document could be viewed in a separate viewer application, the Envoy Distributable Viewer, which also worked as a web browser
Web browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
plugin.
Unlike Adobe PDF, the file format was not publicly documented.
Envoy failed to make any headway against PDF, and is largely now unused. Some have reported success in reading Envoy documents by printing to PostScript
PostScript
PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...
from the Envoy Distributable Viewer, then converting the PostScript file to a PDF.