Re: Generating PDFs with Ada

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:14:12 +0100, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
> No, I think we should tell them "tools should generate PDF or
> OpenDocument, not a proprietary format"; this is true whatever language
> the tools are written in.
You could also be more pragmatic and note:
1) The amount of MS Windows and MS Applications users is great.
2) You are unlikely to convince them all.
3) If you convince some, the count of others will still be great.

What about advocating while supporting the actual state of thing ? You can  
do “I am able in some limits to provide support for this and that, but be  
warned that ... and what about .... and did you ever minded that ... ?”

Last but not least, anything widely used is near to always end into a  
de-facto standard. There may be planned obsolescence (I hate it as much as  
you do), but older format are still there and being more documented over  
the time.

Look at MIDI specification as an example: its not open at all, there is no  
publicly accessible official documentation about it, but as it exist since  
long, it is documented in multiple place in a way which make it really  
usable.


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