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Earlier proposals have contributed to proposals for eTEN, see the eTEN page at Acrobat Services.com. There is no formal project proposed for eTEN but some ideas relate to the eTEN research. eTEN has ideas about content as well as networks of telecoms. Recent ideas about PDF require broadband. Psand have worked on wi-fi and satellite and have demonstrated that web access is possible in Europe. Ideas for eTEN have changed with new information from Seybold Seminars, twice held in Amsterdam as well as San Francisco. Seybold has covered web developments relevant for publishing. Some EU projects benefit from awareness of what is already available in the USA. At Seybold Europeans have contributed a lot of knowledge on pre-press and open source approaches to PDF. There was no Seybold Amsterdam in 2005. Much of the material from previous events is available for download. See the yearlong site at www.seybold365.com . It seems attention has moved on to Web 2 in San Francisco. Maybe this will turn up in Amsterdam sometime later. Below are some of the ideas mentioned previously on this site and relating to eTEN and other EU projects. If there are resources available from the social economy it would be useful to encourage more people to go to future Seybold events. There could also be metings based on available materials. PDF, the second decade Currently the PDF functions developed in the first decade are fairly well accepted but the recent introductions are still very expensive. So most co-op sites have some PDF and most people browsing have the Acrobat Reader. There is actually much more to the Reader than most people are using but there is not much point to a grant aided proposal around this. The new server software from Adobe and others could be useful for another level of collaboration and data transfer. It may be that large co-op organisations such as banking and insurance would be interested. The Adobe products are still expensive but there may be some alternatives, including an 'open source' approach. Scanning and new material There could be a budget for new materials and some scanning. This would probably cover original artwork and Capture processing. Meanwhile there may be more links to existing material in PDF. |
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This graphic originally was part of a poster for a Co-op Fair and 'Use Your Local Co-op' . It is also available as a PDF (142k) . You could try it out with 'place as PDF' in Quark or InDesign.
Clifford Harper currently illustrates the Country Diary for the Guardian. His books are available from Agraphia. There is a download of another illustration here. |
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Online Collaboration It is possible there will soon be several providers of internet services where collaboration can be supported. For more information on this look at the Adobe site. Currently 'collaboration' is the main feature of Acrobat Standard. (The Reader has limited options ; Professional has other stuff as well) http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatstd/main.html Collaboration and Learning The collaboration features of Acrobat 5 could link with ideas about collaborative and co-operative learning. It is unclear what the copyright situation is with material on co-operative learning. There are briefing papers on collaborative learning at the OU's Institute of Educational Terchnology site- http://iet.open.ac.uk/ICDL/marchmont/MarchmontFTP/LSupportbrf1.doc http://iet.open.ac.uk/ICDL/marchmont/MarchmontFTP/LSupportbrf2.doc Also some ideas which may connect with this at a site on 'Learning with ISO 9000' The forms above show how a PDF can be used to enter data. With some effort it is possible to store this data through a web server. Directories can be created in PDF from data. This is going back to dBase etc and the Worker Co-op Database ideas. Somehow the documentation for this and a PDF for US co-ops have become top downloads even though they are way out of date. Enterprising Solutions
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