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PDF as Container - some thoughts

Leonard Rosenthol — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:06:00 GMT

... Here is a VERY quick synopsis of my "PDF Internals" class that I offer to customers. File Format ... PDF files consists of four parts - Header, Body, XRef

Re: [openreader-format] Re: Orca design document

Bill Janssen — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:51:19 GMT

... That can be fixed :-). Bill

Re: [openreader-format] Re: PDF as "open format"...

Leonard Rosenthol — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:23:53 GMT

... No multimedia support for PDF/A-2, sorry. We are discussing a PDF/A-3 that may incorporate live content (multimedia, 3D, etc.), but not there yet. The

Re: PDF as "open format"...

Jon Noring — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:58:15 GMT

... Congratulations! When you next see Steve, ask him about the conversation we had (it was a while back.) Since then we've made a lot of progress in better

Re: PDF as "open format"...

Leonard Rosenthol — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:47:28 GMT

... Yes, I know Steve well. In fact, he just appointed me to author the next generation PDF/A work (PDF/A-2)...which I'm in the midst of writing up... ...

Re: PDF as "open format"...

Jon Noring — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:33:33 GMT

... Er, I apologize. I did not have you in mind when I made the above comment. Your input to openreader-format has been excellent and much

PDF as "open format"...

Leonard Rosenthol — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:10:12 GMT

... I know you said this just to irk me, Jon - so I'll play along ;). I would argue that PDF is MUCH MORE open that Zip, in that there are currently 4 ISO

Re: Orca design document

Jon Noring — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:58:56 GMT

[Bill's message was posted only to OR-devel, adding OR-format.] ... This is a good point -- although using the word 'hokey' is a little extreme. . On

Re: Orca design document

Bill Janssen — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:10:30 GMT

... "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, yet swallow a camel." This strikes me as the hokiest of hokey criteria. You're already creating a format which

Re: Orca design document

Lee Passey — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:37:37 GMT

Yes! Someone is finally starting to get what I've been trying to say! ... This is _exactly_ what I'm looking for. I believe that, like OpenOffice, one of our

Re: [openreader-format] Re: [openreader-devel] Re: Orca design docu

Bill Janssen — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:06:38 GMT

... Lee, this is all a bit like claiming that camels don't because you've exhaustively searched a number of fine arts museums, and haven't found a camel

Re: [openreader-format] Another aspect of the ZIP/MIME discussion:

Bill Janssen — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:59:16 GMT

... Some will see only what they want to see... Just for starters, each part can be explicitly tagged with information about languages, character sets,

Re: [openreader-format] Re: Orca design document

Bill Janssen — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:13:28 GMT

... For indexing parts, I wouldn't do it that way. Assuming a MIME multipart format, I'd just add a Content-Length header to each part, so that you could use

Another aspect of the ZIP/MIME discussion: file checksums

Jon Noring — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:41:32 GMT

Another important issue when we talk about how to encapsulate one or more OpenReader Publications (note that we will allow multiple ORPs in a single

Re: [openreader-format] Re: [openreader-devel] Re: Orca design docu

Lee Passey — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:04:36 GMT

... At Brady Duga's suggestion I downloaded the eBook Publisher from eBook Technologies, and used that to create what is purportedly an Open EBook File Format