- From: Don L. <dlarson@cgmlarson.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:56:56 -0500
- To: "Bezaire, Benoit" <bbezaire@ptc.com>, WebCGM WG <public-webcgm-wg@w3.org>
Benoit > Hi All, > > I find the draft underspecified about compressed CGM files. More > specifically, we would like to know what kind of CGM files may be > compressed? > > Version1 to 4? > Can I compress a WebCGM 1.0 CGM file for example? > > Is this a WebCGM 2.1 conformance feature for viewer and authoring tools? > Or is this a new WebCGM 2.1 (and only 2.1) 'encoding scheme' ... for lack > of a better word? I think 'encoding scheme' is a better characterization. The text for this feature in the webcgm 2.1 spec was extracted from the SVG spec. My thinking is that this is a viewer conformance issue and a WebCGM 2.1 viewer should be able to open a file with a .cgz extension and know that it needa to decode this file according to the gzip spec. with the assumption that results will be a file that conforms to the WebCGM profile (any version e.g. 1.0 , 2.x). Don. > Thanks. > Benoit.
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