On 09/10/2009 01:33 PM, Diana Helander wrote:

> ...PDF/A was initially developed as an
> electronic representation of paper that would be available for extremely
> long periods of time (for the nuclear industry, that can be thousands
> of years).


If we're measuring format viability against the half-life of Pu-239, we'll need
to work around the fact that the English language as we know it (or Russian,
French, etc.) will almost certainly be long dead.  Maybe they can schedule a
bulk translation every thousand years or so, and update the version of PDF
while they're at it.  :-)



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Thomas Dowling
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