Comments on: MARS Attacks! http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/10/24/mars-attacks/ Leonard Rosenthol's thoughts on all things PDF Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:24:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: will789 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/10/24/mars-attacks/#comment-153 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:41:19 +0000 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/10/24/mars-attacks/#comment-153 Jim King has agreed to allow the Acrobat User Forum to host his presentation from the PDF University. http://www.acrobat-services.co.uk/auf/PDFTutorial_Xplor_CL_070218.pdf I think it offers a balanced view on PDF and Flash. So far there seems not to have been much promotion on Mars. Here in the UK there are still a lot of people interested in fairly simple documents so the idea of creating PDF from XML is worth exploring. Jim King has agreed to allow the Acrobat User Forum to host his presentation from the PDF University.

http://www.acrobat-services.co.uk/auf/PDFTutorial_Xplor_CL_070218.pdf

I think it offers a balanced view on PDF and Flash. So far there seems not to have been much promotion on Mars. Here in the UK there are still a lot of people interested in fairly simple documents so the idea of creating PDF from XML is worth exploring.

]]> by: leonardr http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/10/24/mars-attacks/#comment-39 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:51:15 +0000 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/10/24/mars-attacks/#comment-39 Because Mars is based entirely on open standards (XML, ZIP, etc.) we don't need to provide ANY API! You will use the tools you already know and love to do it... Leonard Because Mars is based entirely on open standards (XML, ZIP, etc.) we don’t need to provide ANY API! You will use the tools you already know and love to do it…

Leonard

]]> by: vasudevram http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/10/24/mars-attacks/#comment-29 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:25:10 +0000 http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/2006/10/24/mars-attacks/#comment-29 Sounds interesting. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to reading more about it from you. Having PDF content in a text (XML) based format will open up lots of possibilities for data extraction, manipulation, etc. of the PDF. Should be fun to work on developing tools around MARS documents, hope they also provide an API, and in more than one popular language (at least C, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby) ... Vasudev Ram (wannabe Martian:) Sounds interesting. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to reading more about it from you. Having PDF content in a text (XML) based format will open up lots of possibilities for data extraction, manipulation, etc. of the PDF.

Should be fun to work on developing tools around MARS documents, hope they also provide an API, and in more than one popular language (at least C, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby) …

Vasudev Ram
(wannabe Martian:)

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