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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: WYSIWYG and a common document file format
From:       Seth Kurtzberg <seth () cql ! com>
Date:       2002-07-18 9:07:56
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Martin,

I can see why this would be desirable, but I'm not sure that it is 
achievable.  Not technically achievable, but logistically achievable.  
Consider a few "facts of life" with currently available software:

1.  The display (and also the printed format) change from version to version, 
and, with our friends at Microsoft, from service pack to service pack.

2.  The displayed text is different among systems that have different fonts 
installed.  You would have to ensure that every machine has some base set of 
fonts, and that different fonts never have the same name.

3.  The displayed text is sometimes different depending on the size and 
resolution of the monitor.

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 05:20 pm, Martin Konold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to discuss the issue about WYSIWYG and a common file format.
> In order to become accepted among the users it is required to not only have
> a common file format but to have the very same results when printing the
> document.
>
> I can imagine that during editing of a document the look on the screen is a
> little bit different from program to program but in order to be useful the
> final printout should render and look the same.
>
> What kind of solutions and or ideas do you have in order to solve this?
>
> What kind of reference is suited in order to define what the correct
> printout is supposed to look like.
>
> What about seperating the printing process from the editing process?
>
> This would for example mean that OO Writer or KWord are basically WYSIWYG
> editors which produce an XML file (the common file format) which is then in
> an extra step the basis for transformation to ps, pdf or any other formats
> like rtf or doc.
>
> Of course for the enduser these implementation details can be easily
> hidden.
>
> Yours,
> --martin

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