This document application profile specifies interchange formats for the transfer of structured documents between word "processing equipment incorporating graphics. Such documents may contain characters, raster graphics and geometric graphics.
The documents supported by this profile range from simple documents to highly structured technical reports, artides and typeset documents such as brochures. This profile provides a comprehensive level of features for the transfer of documents between these systems.
This document application profile describes documents which can be interchanged in the following form, as defined in ISO 8613:
- formatted form
- processable form
- formatted processable form.
The architecture levels have matching functionalities so that the interchange formats of a document are convertible from a processable form into any other form.
This document application profile is independent of the processes carried out in an end system to create, edit or reproduce documents. It is also independent of the means to transfer documents which, for example, may be by means of communication links or storage media.