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There already is an XML based WYSIWYG document format that does everything PDF does and more, the W3C's open standard, SVG.

SVG already works with all Windows programs.

2D graphics data expressed as XML can be highly efficiently gzipped.

You can see from these examples of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The same documents in any other available 2D format are generally larger.

And yet, when ungzipped, these SVG files are verbose XML text. You can see that by right-clicking when you view any of those examples with Adobe viewer and selecting View Source.

SVG is a good example of how XML can be implemented efficiently over the wire (gzipped into efficient filesize) and yet accessed by the programmer at either end with no more than a text editor.

SVG examples made from Windows CAD programs

SVGmaker transcodes Office documents to SVG. Some sample documents at the site.

SVGmaker transcodes Office documents to SVG. Some sample documents at the site.

SVG supports gzip. SVGZ files are efficient because verbose, repititious text compresses well.

Look at the filesizes in these examples. Betcha can't make PDF files that small.

SVGmaker gallery
Kevin Lindsey
Adobe examples
Andreas Neumann's Vienna GIS example

SVGmaker creates static SVG from any Windows app. You just click File/Print in your app.

This is a shameless plug but we are only 5 guys working out of a house, not a monopoly... (yet... ho ho ho). In the same way that Acrobat can generate PDF out of anything, SVGmaker can generate SVG out of Windows apps.

These are examples.

This is a shameless plug but we are only 5 guys working out of a house, not a monopoly... (yet... ho ho ho). In the same way that Acrobat can generate PDF out of anything, SVGmaker can generate SVG out of Windows apps.

These are examples.

Adobe has been distributing SVG viewer as part of the Acrobat 5 download for over a year now.

Nobody's waiting for Microsoft to innovate SVG or do their XDocs whatever thing; check these static examples generated from MS apps with SVGmaker: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project

For building SVG web applications its true that there aren't comprehensive IDE tools available yet, but that hasn't stopped developers from creating some definitive web apps with simple home grown tools (starting with a text editor since SVG is just XML).

Like this interactive logical diagram

Check this awesome mapping example

And this wonderful airport flight management app.

Adobe has been distributing SVG viewer as part of the Acrobat 5 download for over a year now.

Nobody's waiting for Microsoft to innovate SVG or do their XDocs whatever thing; check these static examples generated from MS apps with SVGmaker: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project

For building SVG web applications its true that there aren't comprehensive IDE tools available yet, but that hasn't stopped developers from creating some definitive web apps with simple home grown tools (starting with a text editor since SVG is just XML).

Like this interactive logical diagram

Check this awesome mapping example

And this wonderful airport flight management app.

Adobe has been distributing SVG viewer as part of the Acrobat 5 download for over a year now.

Nobody's waiting for Microsoft to innovate SVG or do their XDocs whatever thing; check these static examples generated from MS apps with SVGmaker: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project

For building SVG web applications its true that there aren't comprehensive IDE tools available yet, but that hasn't stopped developers from creating some definitive web apps with simple home grown tools (starting with a text editor since SVG is just XML).

Like this interactive logical diagram

Check this awesome mapping example

And this wonderful airport flight management app.

Adobe has been distributing SVG viewer as part of the Acrobat 5 download for over a year now.

Nobody's waiting for Microsoft to innovate SVG or do their XDocs whatever thing; check these static examples generated from MS apps with SVGmaker: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project

For building SVG web applications its true that there aren't comprehensive IDE tools available yet, but that hasn't stopped developers from creating some definitive web apps with simple home grown tools (starting with a text editor since SVG is just XML).

Like this interactive logical diagram

Check this awesome mapping example

And this wonderful airport flight management app.

For example, start with this static picture generated from a CAD program.

add some simple polygons and script them to conform with some business logic. Connect to your enterprise applications and databases using various connectors (simulated here) and you get a UI component like this that integrates with HTML.

Click on components to select them.

Ctrl-Click to select a set of components. Move your mouse over the colored components to highlight data in the html table.

Type a number in at the top right [enter] to see if you have enough components available for manufacturing.

This example was coded by hand in a day and a half. Probably could do another one in 3 hours or so now we got the hang of it.

For example, start with this static picture generated from a CAD program.

add some simple polygons and script them to conform with some business logic. Connect to your enterprise applications and databases using various connectors (simulated here) and you get a UI component like this that integrates with HTML.

Click on components to select them.

Ctrl-Click to select a set of components. Move your mouse over the colored components to highlight data in the html table.

Type a number in at the top right [enter] to see if you have enough components available for manufacturing.

This example was coded by hand in a day and a half. Probably could do another one in 3 hours or so now we got the hang of it.

But SVG is more compact. For example, this PowerPoint presentation is 140kb as compressed SVG, compared to the original PPT which was 950kb.

But SVG is more compact. For example, this PowerPoint presentation is 140kb as compressed SVG, compared to the original PPT which was 950kb.

Here's an example.

To create SVG fonts, print anything with SVGmaker.

The free demo creates fonts you can reuse in your own SVG doc.

Here's an example.

To create SVG fonts, print anything with SVGmaker.

The free demo creates fonts you can reuse in your own SVG doc.

4. SVGmaker works like Acrobat Distiller (it is a printer driver) but the output is SVG. Consumers can use it to create SVG files from Office apps. But... close your blinds and dim the lights lest the monopoly forces are watching through your window.

oh?... 400m distribution doesn't cut it?

You'd have to ask what SWF brings to the party... maybe if it was openly searchable, transformable, interoperable or portable... but...??

See the PowerPoint examples at SVGmaker:

PowerPoint SVG example from a bankers presentation

... and SVG is efficient, supports gzip: 140kb PowerPoint SVG example made from a 950kb .ppt file

-- SVG Evangelist

oh?... 400m distribution doesn't cut it?

You'd have to ask what SWF brings to the party... maybe if it was openly searchable, transformable, interoperable or portable... but...??

See the PowerPoint examples at SVGmaker:

PowerPoint SVG example from a bankers presentation

... and SVG is efficient, supports gzip: 140kb PowerPoint SVG example made from a 950kb .ppt file

-- SVG Evangelist

oh?... 400m distribution doesn't cut it?

You'd have to ask what SWF brings to the party... maybe if it was openly searchable, transformable, interoperable or portable... but...??

See the PowerPoint examples at SVGmaker:

PowerPoint SVG example from a bankers presentation

... and SVG is efficient, supports gzip: 140kb PowerPoint SVG example made from a 950kb .ppt file

-- SVG Evangelist