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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Generally accepted accounting principles or US GAAP are the accounting rules used to prepare financial statements for publicly traded companies and many private companies in the United States. Generally accepted accounting principles for local and state governments operates under a different set of assumptions, principles, and constraints, as determined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB).

FreePatentsOnline

The FreePatentsOnline search engine is one of the most powerful, fastest and easiest patent search engines on the web. Our search allows advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching relevancy ranking and search term weighing to help you find exactly what you are looking for. Latent semantic searching is also available, and our account features let you organize, annotate and share documents, along with other helpful work-flow features. All documents are available in a highly-compressed PDF format for fast downloading.

WikiPatents

WikiPatents has the largest database of patents open for public comment on the internet, allows PDF downloading of patents, free patent translation into multiple languages, and additional information and resources. It is the best free patent site on the web.

Global
Open Source Windows

Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of. No adware, no spyware, just good software.

LinuxLinks.com

LinuxLinks.com - the Linux portal site offers comprehensive links to information and resources about the Linux Operating System.

Bear Ware

Bear WareThe best Open Source and Freeware programs. We could long debate the qualification of "the best" as it is used here.  Suffice it to define as a program that plays it's role very well, which could hardly be topped...but could be equaled.  Freeware containing program purity (no cost, nags or bundled software) is most important first and foremost.

doPDF - Free PDF Converter

doPDF5.3 free PDF converter

for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista (32 and 64-bit)
1.34 MB | v5.3.231

Freeware. Lightweight. No nags.

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.
New in doPDF 5.3: Optimized the text compression algorithm so now the size of PDF files is reduced by up to 80% (for PDFs consisting mainly of text), Finnish and Arabic user interface localizations added.

Convert to PDF

doPDF5.3 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to the doPDF free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

PDF - Fonts
FREELANG Font Center - Fonts for Foreign Languages

When we need a font for PDF we can use fonts from here. Using a tool for MS Windows, TTF2PT1, we can create an AFM file for PDF.

All the fonts provided are either freeware or shareware, so they can be distributed freely. If it were not the case, please notify them (they will check immediately and delete the font if necessary). The fonts are provided "as-is", without warranty of any kind.

Alan Wood?s Unicode Resources

Here is another good font site.

Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications

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