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Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] The importance to users of documents looking the same
2008/6/18 Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>: > I've been thinking more about this suggestion (which if I recall correctly > can be traced back to marbux) and the idea is growing on me, though it might > want to be expanded to other standard formats/mime types too, like image/png > for thumbnails, or text/plain for search. One could even have, for example, > text/xml if one wanted to embed raw form data (eg SEC filings)... though > there may be other more clever ways to achieve this. > Essentially we will have a scale with raw data editing at one end (eg form > filler that spits out ODF) and typesetting at the other (eg pagemaker), with > most falling in between (OOo, MS Office). The problem is that the embedded > PDF representation will depend on the implementation, so taking a beautiful > document carefully laid out in pagemaker and changing one character in OOo > could cause a train wreck... I think a good way to position this feature is > essentially 'PDF with source code' - if you touch it with the same > implemtentation of the same or greater version then you can edit away, but > if you open it in anohter it might want to save a copy for you. How might that be tested against current ODF standards Sam? Whilst nice to have and quite probably / possibly expected I don't think it's viable with the current standards. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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