[Ma-linux] [Fwd: [Dclug] PDF Peculiarities]

[DonJr]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 16:17 -0500, Alan McConnell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:35:48AM -0500, DonJr wrote:
> >
> > lets see isn't those updates in the form of first "ISO 8859-?" and
> > Unicode?
> 	You say "update", I say "extension".
> 

<SNIP>

> Don is interested in this issue, albeit skeptical.  

"skeptical" only in I don't see where there currently is a problem

> A few others have
> chimed in.  I was interested in Kevin Cole's suggestion of using XML
> for documents.  Does anyone else think this is a good idea?  I would
> volunteer to do some exploration, except that I am engrossed in SOUND
> exploration, and also I do spend lots and lots of time away from the
> computer<g>.
> 
> But maybe there are people here who can use some XML to put a
> picture, very faintly, under some text, or under a picture of a graph?
> Can this be done?  What about printing such a document?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Alan

One way to generate such a XML document/file currently would be with
Open Office.

As far as printing of XML document(s) that is already part of the
standard. Although NOT all platforms will be able to "print" every thing
completely matching some other platform, but that to is handled by the
standard. 

-- 
 DonJr