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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] PDF's as Exhibits- Wish List
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:17:52 -0700
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On or about 6/1/2006 05:23 AM a carrier pigeon from Julie Lineberry delivered:
>Iwould love to have the PDF format as an option as a Image and/or
>text option. Or have I totally missed how this might be accomplished?

You can attach anything as an exhibit... But many would only
be viewable by using the application designed for them -- not
displayed in-line.

The only way to have a PDF displayed in-line would require
implementing the same rendering code that Acrobat Reader does. I
suspect that, by the time WG could do that, Adobe will have added
more features to the PDF format <G>.

PDF started life as a variation of the PostScript page
description language (yes, PostScript is a programming language that
was optimized for laying out text). PDF has since added hot-links and
data forms, along with other security features. It is fairly easy to
generate PDF code from text -- it is not so easy to generate a
display from PDF code.
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