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Re: current thoughts on PDF back end
From: |
Greg A. Woods |
Subject: |
Re: current thoughts on PDF back end |
Date: |
Tue, 15 May 2001 11:21:44 -0400 (EDT) |
[ On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 at 09:01:52 (GMT), Sebastien Pierre wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: current thoughts on PDF back end
>
> Well, actually both PDF ans PS are from Adobe ; but I don't know the
> actual people ;)
Actually I think PS is from Xerox PARC originally....
> Maybe PS offers all that, but it'll only be tweaking. Moreover there
> are some chances that one day Lout will want to add a feature and
> realize they will first have to implement it in PS... so chances are
> that it will never been done.
I suspect PS features would/could lead here, as they have in the past.
> And regarding metadata, the important is not only to put them in the
> documents, which is quite easy with comments, but also to read
> them....and you cannot put metadata if its presence has not been
> standardized, because no search engine will locate them.
The PS DSC are highly standardised...
> Maybe we should try to ask some people who know more about PS and PDF.
maybe! :-)
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- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, Christoph Breitkopf, 2001/05/14
- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, Christian Mock, 2001/05/14
- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, Sebastien Pierre, 2001/05/13
- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, Sebastien Pierre, 2001/05/14
- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, Jeff Kingston, 2001/05/14
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