Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] The importance to users of documents looking the same

[jose lorenzo <hozelda@yahoo.com>]

--- On Wed, 6/18/08, jose lorenzo <hozelda@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: jose lorenzo <hozelda@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] The importance to users of documents looking the same
> To: oiic-formation-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 8:47 PM
> --- On Wed, 6/18/08, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>
> > Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] The importance
> to users of documents looking the same
> > To: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
> > Cc: oiic-formation-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 12:31 PM
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:17 PM,
> > <robert_weir@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > "Dave Pawson"
> <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
> > wrote on 06/18/2008 04:33:36 PM:
> > >
> > > > 2008/6/18 David Gerard
> <dgerard@gmail.com>:
> > > > > (at the risk of bludgeoning the point
> into
> ...
> > 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.
> 
> This looks like the problem of extending interop for PDF
> across apps. To do a thorough job depends on PDF specs.
> 

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought by "source" you meant source code or something similar.

What I think you are saying is that by referencing the "app" that created the PDF (source="..."), we require that it not be editable except perhaps without something known to be compatible with the source app (or to be the source "app" itself).

[I have been using yahoo web mail, but it's doing a crummy job with reply formatting. Also, I have been trying to get enough context in case the process putting the emails on the web as threads requires it.]