I am not snipping any portion of Mr. Janssen's reply, so that individuals in other forums where this message was not posted can have the full reply. ... Well,...
[posted to OR-Format and OR-Devel groups.] ... In essence, what makes the OpenReader Format is not the encapsulation method, but the "creamy filling." In terms...
... How do you get this? Every Web client and server has to implement it. Every MIME toolkit has it. What bogus reference are you getting this bit of...
... Well, I think we all know that binaries can be encoded (e.g. mimencoded) into a MIME format (otherwise how can we email binaries to our friends?), but when...
... Yes, I definitely was not very precise in communication there, particularly in that "8-bit" as I used it is ambiguous. Let me restate what I wrote: the...
... Jon, I've answered these questions already at least 3 times in this forum. I'm not sure what good repeating the answers does if you continue to ignore...
... I apologize. There's several new people on these groups, and repeating this information will be useful. I'd rather you to mention it than me since you are...
Hi, ... This may have been covered earlier, but I'm curious as to what kind of catalog or index would be used in a multipart MIME file to speed access to the...
Michael Day
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Nov 8, 2005 7:26 am
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... Bad assumption! (a logical one, but still wrong) Mac OS X has it's own 2D graphic subsystem called Quartz, which is based on the PDF imaging model. (for...
... A few months ago we did touch upon the points you bring up. We even talked about other archive formats, such as the venerable 'tar'. The first question I...
... How important is memory usage? How important is performance? Without an index, document loading speed will increase exponentially as the size of the...
... See http://xml.openoffice.org/package.html. I note in the referenced document that there is no mention of using MIME with "8bit" or "binary" transfer...
... Oops, I should have been more precise in framing my original question. I meant to say (and I assumed from the context it meant this): "Assuming a user...
... Sure. Building that index will take time - both CPU and disk, since the entire file will have to be read BYTE BY BYTE! That means that the larger the...
[Just changed the Subject: title to reflect that this thread has evolved into comparing MIME with ZIP.] ... This is a very good point. ... Interesting. So if...
... As Mr. Janssen pointed out, the place to start in researching MTHML is RFC 2045 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt). It is interesting to note that in...
... 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...
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 ...
... 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...
... Some will see only what they want to see... Just for starters, each part can be explicitly tagged with information about languages, character sets,...
... Lee, this is all a bit like claiming that camels don't <verb> because you've exhaustively searched a number of fine arts museums, and haven't found a camel...
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...
... "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...
[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. <smile/>. On...
... 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...
... Er, I apologize. I did not have you in mind when I made the above comment. <smile/> Your input to openreader-format has been excellent and much ...
... 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 ...
... 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...
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