August 21, 2003
Acrobat and InfoPath
Jon Udell on Acrobat and InfoPath:
the ongoing integration of XML into PDF is about to shift into high gear... So far, XML data hasn’t been a first-class citizen of the PDF file — especially those PDF files that represent business forms. Acrobat 6 blasts that limitation out of the water. It supports arbitrary customer-defined schemas, [Adobe senior product manager] Myers told me. That’s a huge step forward, and brings Acrobat into direct competition with Microsoft’s forthcoming InfoPath.Fascinating - I need to see this. InfoPath impressed me enormously because (although, as Jon says, it's not really "a first-class native citizen of the Web" since there's a required client component) it really is XML-native. The whole thing is just XML, XSD and XSLT. Acrobat, on the other hand, is this weird not-quite-PostScript.
Jon says: "Adobe can help by making SVG easier to deploy and use". Amen. SVG is really good - and I'm utterly baffled by Microsoft's continued use (in SharePoint2, for example) of VML.
And: "Microsoft can help by making schema-aware data gathering easier to deploy and use". Ahah. Here, with InfoPath, Groove have a trick or two up our sleeves...
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