Hi Davide, 2011/6/27 Davide Dozza <[email protected]>: >
> I've been working on OOo migrations since 2003. Especially for PA. I > think I'm not detached from the real world.... ;-) :o) > One thing it's what people wish, another what the law requires and yet > another is what technology offers. > > For a PA when a document has to be long-term archived only in a > electronic way, the Italian law requires PDF/A. Fidelity is a must. But we are not talking about document archiving here, are we? We are talking about round-tripping documents. > You have to keep in mind that there is a trade off between features and > fidelity. > > Because fidelity it's a question of rendering algorithms: more features > means more complexity for such algorithms. Yes > Therefore the more fidelity you ask the less features you have. > That why PDF/A has been created. > This is another question. We can discuss about embedding font in ODF but > please don't sell it for document fidelity reasons. But this *is* for fidelity reasons - just not meant for archiving. If I send my team (e.g. in India) a document created in Impress or Writer, I want the document to be opened in more or less exact the same form it was sent. This has nothing to do about being able to open the document 20 years from now or about legal requirements for archiving (in Denmark, TIFF and JPEG are only allowed formats). This has to do with sending documents around *now* and to enable any recipient to have all information readily available for displaying the document in the form I created it in. :o) -- Jesper Lund Stocholm www.idippedut.dk SC34/WG4 http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc34/wg4/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
