Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > That's interesting. What purpose could be achieved by embedding a > PDF inside another like this? That is the Adobe PDF history, as seen by me: - start with a Postscript-like language avoiding Postscript problems - good for printing! - so I can send this pdf to you, you print it, fill the data and fax it to me - hey, why can't the pdf file include the data, we need a web-like form - add forms to PDF - good, but I want to check the data you enter, web pages can do that - add javascript to PDF - good, but I want to send you this file too, it is related to my order - add attachments to PDF - good, I can have everything in a PDF, but the file is becoming huge and it is not easy to email/store/copy.... - add splitting support to PDF - final result: you have some pieces, which are a bad zip-like container, which contains random stuff, including executable code (Javascript malware...) At the same time, Unicode support is still a mess (in a format designed for textual documents!) and features are at war among themselves (stream rendering for progressive display while downloading vs. append-only document modifications...). Now implement this stuff with a big inefficient client... ... and claim you are the state of the art for "electronic paper". -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
