-\documentclass[10pt]{article}
+\documentclass[8pt]{extarticle}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{amsmath} % needed for math align
%\pagestyle{empty} % Uncomment if don't want page numbers
\parskip 8.2pt % sets spacing between paragraphs
%\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5} % Uncomment for 1.5 spacing between lines
- %\parindent 0pt % sets leading space for paragraphs
+ \parindent 0pt % sets leading space for paragraphs
+\linespread{0.8}
\newcommand{\vect}[1]{\boldsymbol{#1}} % Draw a vector
It is also big.
+\pagebreak
+
+\section{Portable Document Format (PDF) --- Finally...\cite{cheng2002portable}}
+
+This is not spectacularly useful, is basically an advertisement for Adobe software.
+
+{\bf Intro}
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item Visual communications has been revolutionised by computing
+ \item BUT there have always been problems in exchanging formats
+ \item Filetypes like text, rich text, IGES, DXF, TIFF, JPEG, GIFF solve problems for particular types of files only
+ \item PDF solves everything for everyone; can include text, images, animation, sound, etc
+\end{itemize}
+{\bf PDF Features}
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item Raster Image Process (RIP) --- For printing (presumably also displaying on screen)
+ \item Originally needed to convert to PS then RIP, with PS 3 can now RIP directly.
+ \item Reduced filesize due to compression
+ \item Four major applications - Stoy 1999\cite{stoy1999}
+ \begin{enumerate}
+ \item Download files from internet
+ \item Files on CDs
+ \item Files for outputing to printers
+ \item Conventional [commercial scale?] printing
+ \end{enumerate}
+ \item List of various (Adobe) PDF related software
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Includes software for PS that converts to/from PDF
+ \item So PS was obviously pretty popular before PDF
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item Can Optimize for screen/printer [not clear how]
+ \item Can compress for size
+\end{itemize}
+
+\pagebreak
+\section{Pixels or Perish \cite{hayes2012pixels}}
+
+``The art of scientific illustration will have to adapt to the new age of online publishing''
+And therefore, JavaScript libraries ($\text{D}^3$) are the future.
+
+The point is that we need to change from thinking about documents as paper to thinking of them as pixels.
+This kind of makes it related to our paper, because it is the same way we are justifying our project. It does mention precision, but doesn't say we need to get more of it.
+
+I get the feeling from this that Web based documents are a whole bunch of completely different design philosophies hacked together
+with JavaScript.
+
+This paper uses Metaphors a lot. I never met a phor that didn't over extend itself.
+
+
+{\bf Intro}
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item Drawings/Pictures are ornaments in science but they are not just ornamental
+ \item Processes have changed a lot; eg: photographic plates $\to$ digital images
+ \item ``we are about to turn the page --- if not close the book --- on yet another chapter in publishing history.'' (HO HO HO)
+ \item It would be cool to have animated figures in documents (eg: Population pyramid; changes with time); not just as ``supplements''
+ \item In the beginning, there was PostScript, 1970s and 1980s, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Adobe Systems
+ \item PS is a language for vector graphics; objects are constructed from geometric primitives rather than a discrete array of pixels
+ \item PS is a complete programming language; an image is also a program; can exploit this to control how images are created based on data (eg: Faces)
+ \item PDF is ``flattened'' PS. No longer programable. Aspires to be ``virtual paper''.
+ \item But why are we using such powerful computing machines just to emulate sheets paper? (the author asks)
+\end{itemize}
+
+{\bf Web based Documents}
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item HTML, CSS, JavaScript - The Axis of Web Documents
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item HTML - Defines document structure
+ \item CSS - Defines presentation of elements in document
+ \item JavaScript - Encodes actions, allows dynamic content (change the HTML/CSS)
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item \texttt{<canvas>} will let you draw anything (So in principle don't even need all of HTML/CSS)
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Not device independent
+ \item ``Coordinates can be specified with precision finer than pixel resolution'' {\bf (TODO: Investigate this?)}
+ \item JavaScript operators to draw things on canvas are very similar to the PostScript model
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item SVG --- Same structure (Document Object Model (DOM)) as HTML
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item ``Noun language''
+ \item Nouns define lines/curves etc, rather than paragraphs/lists
+ \item Also borrows things from PostScript (eg: line caps and joints)
+ \item IS device independent, ``very high precision'' {\bf (TODO: Investigate)}
+ \item JavaScript can be used to interact with SVG too
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item $\text{D}^{3}$ (Data Driven Documents) - A JavaScript library
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Idea is to create or modify elements of a DOM document using supplied data
+ \item \url{https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki}
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item We are in a new Golden Age of data visualisation
+ \item Why do we still use PDFs?
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item PDFs are ``owned'' by the author/reader; you download it, store it, you can print it, etc
+ \item HTML documents are normally on websites. They are not self contained. They often rely on remote content from other websites (annoying to download the whole document).
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item {\bf Conclusion} Someone should open up PDF to accept things like $\text{D}^{3}$ and other graphics formats (links nicely with \cite{barnes2013embedding})
+ \item Also, Harry Potter reference
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\section{Embedding and Publishing Interactive, 3D Figures in PDF Files\cite{barnes2013embedding}}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item Linkes well with \cite{hayes2012pixels}; I heard you liked figures so I put a figure in your PDF
+ \item Title pretty much summarises it; similar to \cite{hayes2012pixels} except these guys actually did something practical
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+
+
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