From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,666bab5bfbdf30c2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:22:12 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4d2908c7$0$22120$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <9f23e50a-2c2c-4ccc-bd56-f6ffdc6c7ee7@37g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <82aaj73jsr.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9600f7e1-496b-4232-a5b8-50bc97d8dd7a@g26g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> <87tyhfgu5y.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lj2rgkaz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: XQBzyQfeBLgc2RJf6Vcdrg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17352 Date: 2011-01-11T23:22:12+01:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:14:12 +0100, Ludovic Brenta = a =C3=A9crit: > No, I think we should tell them "tools should generate PDF or > OpenDocument, not a proprietary format"; this is true whatever languag= e > 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 c= an = do =E2=80=9CI am able in some limits to provide support for this and tha= t, but be = warned that ... and what about .... and did you ever minded that ... ?=E2= =80=9D 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 sin= ce = long, it is documented in multiple place in a way which make it really = usable. -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]