At 12:33 PM 11/10/2005, Jon Noring wrote:
>Thanks for clarifying. As an aside, we (David Rothman, Rick Barry, and
>I) had an interesting and cordial teleconference a while back with
>Steve Levenson who was one of the chairs of the PDF/A standards group
>and hope to again talk with him soon.

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...


>And one of the co-founders of OpenReader, Michael Day (who has posted

Yes, Michael and I have also corresponded.


>I've lately been fond of saying that both PDF (probably as PDF/A) and
>OpenReader have their respective roles to play in the digital
>publication ecology.

No argument from me...


>Btw, Leonard, can you give a brief summary as to the structure of the
>PDF wrapper, at least how it compares with ZIP and a MIME-based
>approach? In some ways, the PDF format had to consider issues similar
>to what OR has to consider, such as user agent application access and
>rendering of the internal content, including over networks.

Sure, I'll pull something together later today...


LDR

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