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WTF Microsoft? Just WTF?!?
I'm currently using Office 2007 - it's a nice package, though the more I learn and experience the angrier and angrier I'm getting. I'm not talking about Open Office XML right now, but about their absolute failure to implement ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A) in their .pdf extension.
This ISO is intended to identify a profile so that the document can be reproduced on screen in forthcoming years. This requires all elements of the document to be self-contained, which includes the fonts, images, text, and colour information. As a result, .pdf files that accord with this standard tend to be bulkier that normal.
Now, in the options for saving to .pdf files in Office 2007 you can either bitmap the text for when fonts are not included OR you can be ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A) compliant. Microsoft defaults to the former, which causes all kinds of problems if you choose to save to a .pdf using the Calibri font that Word defaults to because when you open a .pdf file in a web browser without ticking the latter option the file doesn't open properly. The second that you select ISO 19005-1, you can make .pdf files web friendly.
I understand that Microsoft wants to replace .pdf. with XPS, but wanting to replace an existing standard with your own should not mean that you just break the competitor's file formats!!!
This ISO is intended to identify a profile so that the document can be reproduced on screen in forthcoming years. This requires all elements of the document to be self-contained, which includes the fonts, images, text, and colour information. As a result, .pdf files that accord with this standard tend to be bulkier that normal.
Now, in the options for saving to .pdf files in Office 2007 you can either bitmap the text for when fonts are not included OR you can be ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A) compliant. Microsoft defaults to the former, which causes all kinds of problems if you choose to save to a .pdf using the Calibri font that Word defaults to because when you open a .pdf file in a web browser without ticking the latter option the file doesn't open properly. The second that you select ISO 19005-1, you can make .pdf files web friendly.
I understand that Microsoft wants to replace .pdf. with XPS, but wanting to replace an existing standard with your own should not mean that you just break the competitor's file formats!!!
