[xsl] Office 2007, XSL-FO, and the Adobe "Save as PDF"

[Dennis Barb <dennisxmlwork@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, after all that background, the question is: 

At 10:46 AM -0600 6/3/06, M. David Peterson wrote:
>Does providing the ability to save a Word document as
PDF natively,
>out-of-the-box (apparently they will counteract the
apparent demand
>by Adobe by providing the support as a separate
download) provide
>even greater opportunity for XSL-FO by increasing the
number of PDF
>documents, or does it hurt XSL-FO my making it less
relevant to the
>needs of the printing industry?

Or is it simply not relevant? 

I suggest that whatever Microsoft may do to add an XML
veneer to Word, it will remain an unstructured word
processor. While it may be possible to use future
versions of Word to create user-defined XML (doing it
with the current version is akin to writing by shaping
cooked spaghetti into words), the vast majority of
Word users will use it as an unstructured tool. So,
what ever capabilities are provided for presenting the
documents are irrelevant to XSL-FO. XSL-FO is a
technology for presenting STRUCTURED documents. 

So, any change to the output options of Word won't
affect the market for display tools for structured
documents. 

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