[wilhelmtux-discussion] A free document format for document interchange?
Robert Ribnitz
ribnitz at linuxbourg.ch
Die Jan 14 13:00:20 CET 2003
Hi there,
I was musing about a toally free Document format, for interchanging
documents, and I came up with the following postulates:
- It must be possible to ipmlement viewers and creation tools without
paying license fees (please note, I dont say free here, I say
royalty-free)
- The format should support both editable and non-editable content
- The format should allow trustworthy content (public-key crypto
signing/encryption/trust)
- The format should embed all used fonts
- The format should allow integration of non-textual media (images,
sounds)
- The format should ont allow the execution of macros or scripts
(java-like sandbox model)?
- The format should support Multibyte Charsets (Farsi, Japanese,..)
- Tools should exist for different platforms (at least Windows, MacOS,
and Unix-Derivates)
- It would be nice if the format was XML-Based, with a public DTD.
- It would be nice if the tools saved in a compressed format (zip,
bzip2,..)