Adobe's creates Intelligent Documents

[MacBytes]

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[Mudbug]

while not exactly mac-related, this has potential to be some really cool stuff.

 

[Earendil]

I tried to read the article, but couldn't come away with anything as mind blowing as the title. Perhaps it's that Finals-Week state of mind...
Can someone sum up in two lines what's so cool about this, and what the possibilities are? From what I read it sounded like they made a better PDF file...

Tyler Z.

 

[fabsgwu]

PDF + XTML + Lots of meta-data = Intelligent Document.

That's what I got, though I did trail off towards the middle of the description...

 

[isgoed]

I tried to read the article, but couldn't come away with anything as mind blowing as the title. Perhaps it's that Finals-Week state of mind...
Can someone sum up in two lines what's so cool about this, and what the possibilities are? From what I read it sounded like they made a better PDF file...

Tyler Z.

I think this kind off document would be usefull in big companies. I used to work at a bank where I needed to delegate invoices. The invoice had a lifecycle of:

central incomming invoices => delegation to departments => send to proper financial directors => sign or deny invoices => possible 2nd sign => go to financial department => include in financial book => pay => archive invoice

I would imagine that if you can make a single electronic document that represents only the required data for each user, this process can be greatly optimized.

 

[space2go]

If you ignore the extreme buzzword bingo score it just says:
Let's do webapplications without HTML and call it 'Intelligent Documents'