[odf-discuss] Mars: XMLisation of PDF - opportunity for ODF?

[Arend van Beelen]

On 11/9/06, Lars D. Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> Ah.  Thanks for the reminder. I looked it up and it's ISO 19005-1:2005
>
> http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=38920
>
> I'm not sure that not being XML is a big disadvantage in this case.  I'm
> not sure of the proper term, but PDF is a terminal state for information.
> Things go into PDF or paper form, and that's the end.
>
> As I understand it, PDF is a rendering specification.  It's sort of paper
> that hasn't taken phisycal form yet.


There are certainly advantages thinkable.  For example, a big advantage PDF
has over its paper counterpart is that it can be searched by a computer and
PDF's can be indexed into search engines. Now extracting searchable text
from an XML-based format is incredibly more easy than it is to write a
PDF-parser and search the text you can get out of that.

-- 
Arend van Beelen jr.
"If you want my address, it's number one at the end of the bar."
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