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Common Ground from No Hands Software, allows any Windows or Mac program to create a document that can be viewed or printed by others even if they don't have the program that was used to create the document in the first place. Software comes with a document maker and a viewer. An early competitor to Adobe Acrobat[1], Common Ground was used to create portable, self-contained documentation applications, called "Digital Paper."[2]
Acquired by Hummingbird Communications[3] Ltd in 1996, then sold to OpenText in 2006[4].
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File Identification
Common Ground version 1 files have Type CGDC and Creator CGVM
Self Launching files have Type APPL and Creator CGSL
Starting at byte 8 file header contains the string CGDC
Later versions have the file header starting at byte 8 DPL2 or DPL3
Screenshots
Sample files
References
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/pc-computing-magazine-v8i12/page/n111/mode/1up
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/MacWEEKV07N25/page/n45/mode/1up
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=zz4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA48&ots=ieIJdCOOsj&dq=hummingbird&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ↑ https://www.opentext.com/about/brands/hummingbird
