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October 9, 2006
Compound documents
Compound documents: Jon Udell discusses how certain documents consist of more than one file, and the current difficulty in achieving this on the Web. Previous versions of Adobe Acrobat could bundle multiple PDFs together as a single package, and the upcoming 8.0 version introduces this for varied filetypes -- a single PDF can embed an Excel spreadsheet, selected pages of an MS Word doc, graphic source files, and other PDFs with different permissions settings. It's possible to zip things up, of course, but the workflow is better here -- a "document" these days is more than just a couple of pages to print.
Posted by JohnDowdell at October 9, 2006 1:38 PM