[tdf-discuss] Re: The fast evolving shape of documents

"drew" <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote in message 
news:1303393014.20515.26.camel@sybil-gnome...
> Hi,
>
> Just thought I'd pass along a reference to this article:
>
> http://drdobbs.com/tools/229400040

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> "To make electronic forms of documents an adequate, perhaps superior
> replacement for printed documents, we need three levels of independ-
> ent abstractions for documents: the document itself, how the docu-
> ment is rendered on a particular media or device, and the markup for
> that document. A document should be able to be rendered through a
> transformation that is a function of a device and display parameters.
>
> This leads to the notion that page numbers simply are not ideal for
> electronic documents.

Hmm. Please would someone suggest an alternative mechanism that lets me 
easily detect that part(s) of the document is(are) missing. Numbering pages 
as "1 of 38", 2 of 38", ... "37 of 38", "38 of 38" serves this purpose 
rather well. Open to fraud of course but not really to accidental damage. I 
suppose that if the document will *never* be printed then page numbers could 
go but adding page numbers as the document is printed would be open to 
serious accidental damage.

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> —Geoffrey Pascoe

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> A little something to chew over perhaps.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Drew


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