On Sat, Jul 03, 2004, Bryce Yancey wrote:
> The latest revision of the Plucker Document Format
> (http://cvs.plkr.org/index.cgi/docs/DBFormat.html) adds support for
> several new features that require parser support to completely
> implement.  Now that the latest revision of the Plucker document format
> has been approved,

I found a critical problem in the new format when working on the
viewer implementation. The problem is that the viewer will not be
able to find the navigation data (put after the compressed text/image
data). One solution would be to add a new field to the header with
the size of the compressed data or the offset to the navigation data.

This will, however, make the new format non-backwards compatible.

It should be quite simple to write a script that could convert
documents from the new format to the old format (without the new
features), though.

It might even be a good idea to add another field that includes the 
header size (or offset to the text/image data) to be able to handle
future changes without breaking the format.

Comments? Suggestions?

/Mike

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