On Monday 30 June 2008 17:07:57 Sam Johnston wrote:
> Currently if you need high fidelity (eg a brochure) you will most likely
> manually maintain a PDF alongside the source document (eg DOC). Embedding
> PDF in ODF (or vice versa) to give 'pixel perfect + source' sounds sensible
> to me, and the quality of the 'rendering' will depend on the application
> used to create this compound doc (eg Google Docs vs PageMaker).
I thought about this too.
While it has benefits:
Pixel perfect,
Display on devices that can render PDF but can't manage a 'full' ODF document
Would it not unnecessarily bulk out documents?
Does an editor that can edit the ODF but not create the PDF delete the PDF
chunk?
Alex.
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Alexander Wright
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