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At 9:25 AM -0700 10/14/03, Duff Johnson wrote:
The change you suggest would represent a significant plus, and if Leonard's issues ARE addressed, I do not (until / unless Leonard shines light on my marble head) see a minus.
The minus is simply the fact that having two different places for the same data in a document format means that one can never know which is the current/valid set. This is one of (but certainly not the only reason) why the PDF/A committee forbid /Info in their documents.
And since Adobe has already made a statement with Acrobat 6 that XMP always wins over /Info regardless of which was actually modified most recently, it seems quite logical for Adobe to take the next step and just completely remove support for /Info in PDF 1.6/Acro 7. (obviously, Acrobat would still need to support older PDF documents with /Info but no XMP)
You also need to consider that there are tools out there today that know about the /Info but NOT the XMP - and are currently updating them w/o regard for the above-mentioned change to Acro6. As such, users are getting a MUCH MORE problematic experience than what Lori described in her Email. And as long as Adobe continues to support /Info, it will only get worse.
Adobe needs to be out there pushing XMP and XMP toolkit on developers and get them to move towards it for the standard metadata for PDF (and other imaging formats) and away from things like /Info, IPTC, etc.
Leonard -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) 215-629-0789 (fax)
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