> What is needed is a document format that is designed for the easy and > accurate exchange of documents. Sadly, Adobe are taking PDF in much same > direction that Microsoft took the Word file-format, where frequent > changes to the format meant that folks were forever playing version > catch-up.
Are you talking of an editable format or a plain viewing format? For viewing, nothing can beat a plain image format (TIFF, PNG?) DSC-compliant postscript should be fine too, maybe SVG would be fine too. However those formats will give you huge files. > I am aware of SGML Document Interchange Format, but SGML seems to have > gone out of favour. Does anyone know of a format that fits the > requirements I've described, or could be made to? There is a BIG difference between PDF and SGML: PDF is an "visual" file format. It tells you how the documents is supposed to look. It's more of a graphical format than a document format. SGML on the other hand does not say anything about how the document looks, it's a content oriented format. HTML is SGML. To force a look onto HTML you need for example CSS. Otherwise you have no control over how the document looks. /Peter
