On 4 February 2015 at 19:51, Louis S <[email protected]> wrote: > I posted on this to see if pdfbox could offer insight s it is taken up. > Dave pointed out that the functionality of pdfbox ws interesting to his > company. >
And I think your posting was interesting information (such information is needed to see what moves out there). But I do not think we currently should think about putting it into Corinthia. rgds jan i. > Louis > > > On 4 Feb 2015, at 12:03, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> On 4 Feb 2015, at 5:47 pm, Edward Zimmermann <[email protected] > >> <javascript:;>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Does this have anything to do with Corinthia? No. Corinthia is about > >> content and especially word processing formats (OOXML, ODF etc.).. > >> Corinthia is at its core about pragmatic fidelity. The point of the > >> bidirectional transformation model is to be able to reduce fidelity > >> demands. Unless the project wants to get sidetracked into HiFi rendering > >> (of DOCX or ODT) it's completely outside of the scope…. > >> > >> I think of PDF in the same way as I do PNG. It’s intended as an output > >> format, not an input format. I know there are tools out there which are > >> effectively half of an OCR system which can reconstruct a source > document > >> by inferring the logical structure from the layout (e.g. where a > paragraph > >> begins and ends), though this is quite a difficult problem and I’m not > sure > >> that it’d be within the scope of Corinthia (though if someone has ideas > on > >> this and wants to work on it, I’m all for it - it’s just a very > difficult > >> and very different task to writing filters for all the other formats > we’ve > >> discussed). > > > > +1 I think we currently have other more important tasks in corinthia. > > > > > > rgds > > jan i > > > >> > >> On the other side is output to PDF - that is, typesetting. This is > >> something I also think would be outside the scope of the project (at > least > >> based on my understanding of people’s interests to date). We basically > rely > >> on separate programs to do the typesetting of a document produced by the > >> library, e.g. LaTeX, WebKit/other browser engines. > >> > >> -- > >> Dr. Peter M. Kelly > >> [email protected] <javascript:;> > >> http://www.kellypmk.net/ > >> > >> PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key < > http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > >> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > > > > -- > > Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings. >
