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Thu Mar 28 10:00:40 UTC 2019


"Opaque formats include PostScript, PDF, proprietary formats that can be read
and edited only by proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD
and/or processing tools are not generally available, and the machine-generated
HTML produced by some word processors for output purposes only."


I cannot believe that the .doc should be considered transparent whereas
PostScript or PDF are cited examples of opaque formats.

As far as I know (some of my friends use Open Office, but I don't) it is not so
easy to handle .doc files with those free tools than with the "original" MS Word.
Sometimes they just cannot open a file.
It might not be so easy to "implement the standard".

I think that the "proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
proprietary word processors" allusion was written with MS-Word.doc in mind.


Guillaume Ponce
http://www.guillaumeponce.org/



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