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Jeremy Griffith writes: > Well put. Thank you! > IMO, the second point is more a consideration for printer > drivers than for interchange, I don't think that's the whole story. It's not just the authors of the printer drivers, it's the millions of people who use those printer drivers! In practice, many people depend on the fact that the layout model is in fact defined relatively independently of the particular printer brand or model; applications like Microsoft Word will give quite consistent page layout for a given MS Word file as long as the page size and margins are consistent. If I send you a .doc file and you print it, what you see will be very close to what I see. People rely on this all the time, for everything from homework assignments mailed from teachers, to important business or legal documents. I'm asking whether the OOXML specification provides sufficient information to achieve this interoperability; I suspect it does not try, in the sense that it does not attempt to specify layout at the pixel level as a function of page size, margins, pixel size, etc. Layout consistency (and font consistency) is high on the list of things that people think are broken when they send something like a .doc file to a non-Word application that can read the file, but that prints it with a different look. These people are not authors of printer drivers; they are users who depend on their documents printing with a consistent layout as long as the page sizes and margins are the same. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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