[odf-discuss] Three steps to Open Source in the Church

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

Bart Hanssens  wrote on 01/03/2008 01:54:27 PM:

> It's rather ironic we can read paper manuscripts written by Shakespeare 
> himself, but unable to retrieve the data created in our childhood.
> Anyway, that's precisely the reason why PDF/A was conceived...
> 
> Of course, ODF might do the trick as well, _if_ you're able to remove 
> external dependencies like commercial or uncommon fonts, links to other 
> files... Add metadata fields (author, last update, keywords) for extra 
> credits :-)

I sometimes wonder whether ODF/A might make sense some day.  Is there a 
use for a profile of ODF specifically for long-term archiving that imposes 
some of the same constraints that PDF/A does around fonts, image formats, 
etc.?  My first thought was, no, just use PDF/A.  Typically one does not 
have a need for editing an archived documented.  However, there may be a 
need to view spreadsheet formulas of an archived document, or examine 
review/edits in an archived documents, and these are features that would 
be lost when publishing to PDF/A.

-Rob
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