Talk:Open XML Paper Specification: Difference between revisions

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:::: "It doesn't matter, the difference is this among other things anyway." -- Nevertheless, if it is seen as having less demanding requirements for viewing, saving, and printing, it may have an advantage: Adobe's reader is often viewed as unnecessarily bloated, both in size and in computational requirements. If viewers for XPS are smaller and faster, it could be seen as an advantage. If plugins are made for the major browsers, I could easily see this as replacing PDF for the vast majority of users. [[User:CobraA1|CobraA1]] 08:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

::Northgrove is correct here. The statement is that "PDF does things that XPS doesn't, therefore when those things are useful, PDF will be the only thing that provides those things". The question of how often they're useful is moot as long as they are useful sometimes.

:::No, the question is not moot: People who want the sometimes useful extra capabilities of PDF can still use PDF. Just because there's a small number of people who want more doesn't nullify the idea that the majority of people will be fine with something like XPS. [[User:CobraA1|CobraA1]] ([[User talk:CobraA1|talk]]) 00:20, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

::I would like to see that statement expanded a bit. "dynamic capabilities" is a very vague statement that doesn't mean much to the reader. Heck, it's my field and I had no idea what was meant by it without reading the discussion. Can we change it to "...does not currently include the ability to display dynamic content such as scripting, forms or animations..."? - [[User:Mythobeast|Robert Rapplean]] 17:00, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

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