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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryce Yancey
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:09 AM
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Subject: RE: Critical problem in new format (was: Support for new
Plucker features in the Parser.)
This will, however, make
How about fixing the new format to be backwards-compatible, instead?
I think compatibility of the format extensions are paramount.
Bill
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
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.
Would it be possible to make the viewer do this automagically, upon
opening an older format document? The problem I see with writing a script
to
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
Would it be possible to make the viewer do this automagically, upon
opening an older format document?
Wrong direction ;-)
The problem with a non-backwards compatible change to the Plucker
format is that only new viewers would be able to
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
