Fwd: Re: [wsia] pdf?

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Folks,

I wanted to pass this along before today's meeting. It occurs to me 
that if we are all using the same format for the scenarios, I could 
produce some templates into which the text of these scenarios could 
be pasted. I will be happy to convert said documents to pdf and 
update them as needed and send them along to John for inclusion on 
the website in a standardized way that is easy to read and 
professionally clean.

Would this be acceptable?

The presentation is so clean it sparkles, and pleases me to be able 
to pass along. All of our work should maintain that kind of standard, 
no?

Ciao,
Rex

>X-From_: William.Cox@bea.com  Thu Jan 31 20:50:41 2002
>Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:02:19 -0500
>From: William Cox <William.Cox@bea.com>
>Organization: BEA Systems Inc.
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
>Subject: Re: [wsia] pdf?
>
>replying just to you...feel free to reply/forward to the list. I expect
>you'll hear quite a bit on this topic.
>
>"Is there some reason why Word is not creating generic, uncluttered html?
>"
>
>Word produces some of the crappiest HTML on the planet.  Dreamweaver 4
>even has a Word-version-specific tool to remove the garbage, making it
>more usable.  The garbage is there in part to allow roundtrip editing of
>HTML with Word, something I don't recommend.
>
>BTW, Microsoft FrontPage is almost as bad; it adds whole directories of
>stuff too.  I generally use Dreamweaver for HTML authoring -- it doesn't
>seem to add ANY garbage, even when copying.  FrontPage couldn't copy a
>header for me without putting in its oar...
>
>Word's output is not valid HTML - lots of unclosed tags, etc.
>
>I agree with you on the PDF - that was the preferred format that we
>discussed at the F2F. And if there's PDF, I don't mind what else is
>there.  But trying to follow a draft with two different folks' Word means
>that pagination and so forth will not match.  Other docs are fine in
>common formats (Word/RTF being one), but let's do PDF also.
>
>bill cox
>
>Rex Brooks wrote:
>
>>  Is there some specific reason why no one is posting their scenarios
>>  in pdf? I don't really care myself, but I thought it was agreed upon
>>  as the format of choice for these works.
>>
>>  However, I am noticing some rather annoying Word artifacts. Is there
>>  some reason why Word is not creating generic, uncluttered html? I
>>  write mine from scratch, and convert everything to ascii text first,
>>  and as far as that is concerned, since I don't think John writes html
>>  as such, or Xhtml, it really would be better all around, especially
>>  for inclusion on our website, if these scenarios, and later, the use
>>  cases to be in pdf, especially if they are UML and done in some
>>  program other than Rational Rose. Getting a publishable version may
>>  involve jumping through some hoops, in which case I would rather just
>>  volunteer to convert it than have it come up floopy on the web. Rose
>>  can output web pages or Word compatible versions of its diagrams, and
>>  for the sake of round tripping our work straight into code, it would
>>  be preferable.
>>
>>  Ciao,
>>  Rex
>>
>>  P.S. Hearing no dissent, I have passed the presentation along to the
>>  architecture folks at the Web 3D Consortium. We are waiting for a
>>  penultimate version of the X3D spec for approval before harvesting
>>  requirements from this arena.
>>  --
>>  Rex Brooks
>>  GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth
>>  W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com
>>  Email: rexb@starbourne.com
>>  Tel: 510-849-2309
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Rex Brooks
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth
W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com
Email: rexb@starbourne.com
Tel: 510-849-2309
Fax: By Request