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By design, the Grand Avenue application does not distinguish between file formats and has no ability to modify the contents of uploaded files. Each file uploaded to Grand Avenue, regardless of whether it is a Microsoft Word document or a SOLIDWORKS drawing, is stored neutrally in binary format in Grand Avenue. Downloaded files are exact binary copies of the uploaded file to ensure there is no corruption or loss of information.
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In addition, embedding technology such as Mcrosoft Office add-ons or Adobe Acrobat into Grand Avenue Software would significantly affect our business model due to the cost to license those third party products and the additional resources needed to develop and test the software. In addition, Grand Avenue would have no control over the third party products and how changes to them could negatively impact Grand Avenue functionalitythe kind of third-party tools in our software necessary to make direct modifications to customer documents would introduce significant, uncontrollable risks to the testing and validation of each release. Tools that may work when a version of Grand Avenue is first released may stop working with subsequent changes to file formats like Office or Adobe Acrobat, or worse, silently seem to work while introducing unnoticed errors into the documents. Because of those potential risks to customers, Grand Avenue will likely not invest in this area, and customers will either need to manually apply any desired watermarks, or consider whether watermarking documents is actually still a good practice.
Grand Avenue encourages customers to implement a policy that the electronic system is the system of record. Employees may download and print documents, but they should always be verified against the current revision in Grand Avenue before being used.
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