Re: MkIV and DVI output

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

luigi scarso wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> luigi scarso wrote:
>>  >>  at some point i will redo the backends, but i wonder if it really makes
>>  >>  sense to support dvi any longer; i'd rather prepare for future formats
>>  > xps ?
>>
>>  mars
> A very nice subject to discuss here at pdf/a conference with Leonard Rosenthal
> (why use a pdf format for archiving, and in the same moment push mars?
> mars can be  XML->PDF->XML)
> But I did'nt want to do that.
> I have talkd last year in italy with Olaf Drümmer, he said the mars is
> still an experiment .
>  From my point of view xml is better for long term archiving.

xml is to bulky for an output format (apart from the slower parsing), so 
  i wonder if it is that good as format for final products; of course 
xml may be handier to manipulate afterwards (which is something we 
somethines need to do with third party inclusions) but that can be 
crippled by encriptions, compression etc; in my opinion xml should be 
readable and this somewhat conflicts with compression and binary chunks 
(fonts) and encryption etc .. in that case one gets angle brackets 
instead of objects and the rest stays the same (a bit comparable with 
svg, which just packages huge amounts of path info in attributes (kind 
of rediculous to use attributes for that); xml is nice, but nor for 
everything

we'll see

Hans

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