Leonard wrote:
> 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...

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
understanding the relative roles of PDF/A and OpenReader in the scheme
of things. For example, we are gaining a better understanding of the
role OpenReader may play in the archives and records management area
(ARM) -- Rick Barry, one of our co-founders, is a long-time expert in
the ARM arena ... I like to call him our "ARMist". <smile/> His bio is
found at the OpenReader.org site.

Btw, what additions to PDF/A-2 are being planned? I had heard
something about multimedia support. Any others?


>>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...

This is much appreciated. I think it might aid in our decision-making
to see how others do things, and maybe discern why.

Jon