Everyone, The openreader.org web site has been down for over a week due to a snafu in a domain server move (GoDaddy apparently screwed up some data). This...
[cc: David Teller -- this will be forwarded separately to the OpenReader-Format and OpenReader-Devel groups] Oops, I forgot to answer David's following comment...
... Actually, I suspect that the ZIP archive format _is_ in the public domain. You see, you can't copyright an _idea_, you can only copyright the _expression_...
... It's not public domain, but it is publicly documented. And as you note, there isn't much in terms of protection for a file format. HOWEVER, in order to...
... Unless things have changed since my last check, it's just impossible to perform searching in PDF. That is, if, for any reason the text uses ligatures (the...
... Huh? PDF has been searchable since version 1.0... ... Not at all. The information will be present for a PDF consumer to convert all glyphs to their Unicode...
... It's been many years since I looked at PDF as an eBook format, but I vaguely recall the hardware requirements were quite steep when considering dedicated...
... The requirements for a FULL PDF viewer can potentially be steep - if you consider the needs of rendering resolution independent vector data and raster...
... Let me rephrase. Unless things have changed a lot since I last checked, PDF is very much a typographical language -- akin to SVG or PostScript -- by...
... As I said, it has been years since I looked at it, but the requirements at the time for embedding a reasonable viewer that could re-flow the text were...
... I've always been curious about tagged (or structured) PDF, but know little about its capabilities and limitations compared with XML+CSS in a web standards...
Everyone, It seems to me that in order to make progress in OpenReader format development, we must *quickly* get a good understanding on the following items: 1)...
... I believe that compression is necessary, as XML formats are extremely space-inefficient, specially when produced by conversion from document types (I'm...
... Happy to. ... Not necessarily. Sure, the default view in Acrobat is to show the PDF as "static laid out presentation" (ala Postscript or SVG). However, if...
... Things have changed. The PDF "rendering instructions" remain as drawing instructions (ala SVG or Postscript). HOWEVER, with Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4), Adobe...
... [...] Ok, obviously, things have changed :) Could you point me to a language reference for the latest version of the PDF language ? Thanks, David -- Read,...
... Capture" ... still ... <http://www.pdfsages.com/openberg.pdf>. ... view will ... Now ... fit the ... stay ... view... Unfortunately, I don't seem to have...
... These two use the same algorithm, which is also part of PDF, Postscript, TIFF, etc. It's generally referred to as "Flate". It's not the best, but it is...
Can't get it: error 403 (after registration). Btw, is there a licensing issue regarding that document ? ... -- Read, Write, and Publish Standard eBooks Free,...
... I have reservations about using a MIME-based format for a number of reasons, most of which are not directly technical. But the first question that needs to...
... Good point to discuss! ... How does MIME handle text files encoded as UTF-8 or UTF-16? What impact will this have on file size? Now, to demonstrate my...
... Sure - in fact it's the default. Since the names are in the manifest, and the manifest is xml, and the default encoding for xml is UTF8. All reading...
... I have a few other arguments: * compression is technically easy * XML is very space inefficient but compresses very well * space waste gets even worse when...
Everyone, I noticed the following message posted to The eBook Community which is germane to our discussion of compression algorithms on OpenReader-Format. With...
... It all depends on the 'Content-Transfer-Encoding' header, which must be one of "7bit", "8bit", "binary", "quoted-printable", or "base64" (if unspecified,...
At Adobe and in all of the various W3C activities with which I have been involved over the years, I have heard many discussions about packaging technologies....
... Thanks, Jon. And welcome to openreader-format! Very good points. It is interesting that the major packaging initiatives you mention are gravitating toward...
... I fully agree, and would like to add my opinions: The container format should support fast random access, meaning that elements should be compressed...
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