Reproduction du message de Sebastian Rahtz

[Thierry Bouche <Thierry.Bouche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

L'animateur va me taper sur les doigts, mais voici une info qui
pourrait intéresser un certain nombre d'entre vous.

En gros, ça parle de ce que certains ici appellent de leurs voeux
depuis des millénaires : un standard de description de page
suffisamment précis pour contenir toute la typo, basé sur XML. (XML
est  un sous-truc de SGML, et un sur-truc de HTML, sauf erreur de ma
part). 

Th.

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Subject:	PGML (Precision Graphics Markup Language)
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:30:20 +0100

This may be of interest to some of you, a proposal to express PS/PDF
functionality in XML

sebastian


http://www.w3.org/Submission/1998/06/

Abstract

This document provides the specification for Precision Graphics Markup
Language (PGML). PGML is a 2D imaging model of the
PostScript language and the Portable Document Format (PDF), a model that
has proven over years to satisfy the needs from both the
simplest, lightweight graphics to the most complex and demanding and
that has proven suitable for both online viewing and printing.
PGML satisfies the needs of both the low-end graphics user who just
needs to define a simple bar chart and the high-end graphic artist
who wants precision control over fonts, layout, color and compositing to
ensure graphics integrity of the image as seen by the end user.
In many cases, a scalable graphics format has several intrinsic
advantages over a raster format, including smaller file sizes and
resolution-independent viewing and printing. Moreover, because PGML
fully integrates with current and emerging W3C standards,
PGML yields additional benefits including support for processable text,
dynamic behaviors, scripting, and document interchange.

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