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1.2 "OS/2 WARP and OpenDoc"
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<a name="HDR4610WLM"><H2> 1.2 The Conventional Way of Working</H2></a>
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If you hear the word document, do you think about a piece of paper with
information on it, or several pieces of paper collected in a folder, or
bonded together in a book, or in a manuscript? This is what we
historically would think of when we talk about documents. There are, of
course, other documents that we must consider: things that we read every
day, the newspaper, a magazine, E-mail, notes and letters and even
internet pages. These could all be seen as documents, as they are either
physical or logical pieces of paper with information.
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All of these different media have one thing in common. They contain words
and pictures. But that is where it stops. You have to read the words,
and use your imagination to give life to the document. With the help of
pictures, you can more accurately form the images in your imagination, but
they do not give life to the document itself. The same could be said for
tables and charts. They make the document easier to read and understand,
but you still have to think about the meaning of these charts and graphs.
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And then consider the amount of work required to create a document, in
terms of typing or writing the words and capturing the pictures, creating
the charts, and editing the document, all the different programs and
applications that you have to use to perform these tasks. You will use a
word processor to type in the words. A capture or scanning program will
be needed to get the pictures. You'll need another program if you need to
change the picture. A spreadsheet will be needed to produce graphs and
tables of figures. You'll need a database to get the information that you
require, and so forth.
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Let's go back to our scenario in <a href="1.1#HDR4610WNW">"A New Way of Working" in topic 1.1</a>. You
will use your word processor to type in the report. This word processor
must have special links to your mail program to do the mail-merge. Of
course, the mail program must be linked to the database, which must be
linked to the word processor so that we can have the information that is
in the database in the report. To include the client's account details we
need to link the spreadsheet program or the database to the word
processor. Both the spreadsheet and the graphs must be linked to the
report. If we don't go any further, we have already used more than four
programs to produce a simple report. And then the links between these
programs always seems to be very fragile. Imagine writing a daily
newspaper this way.
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Now imagine that you would like to add another dimension to the document,
such as sound and live images. Where you can point to a word such as
"bird" and listen to the sound that the bird makes. We can look at a
picture but then at the same time you can hit the play button at the
bottom of the picture and have live video on the document.
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Now most people will say that it is nothing new. We have these facilities
today within a number of programs. Areas such as the Word Wide Web, where
you have links through words to other documents, sound and video. The
difference is that when you click on those words they have to launch
another program to play the sound or video. These Multimedia programs
will be integrated into the program that you are using to view the
document.
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But let's take this another step further. Instead of typing the document,
you can use speech recognition or handwriting recognition. We can work in
a collaborative environment where more than one person could work on the
same document and the updates will be in real time for both the users.
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This new document could also be able to handle foreign languages. This
means that we can write the document in English and when a person who
speaks French loads the document that it would be in French instead of
English. The program which you use to display the document must be able
to do the translation for you.
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What we've just described to you is called compound documents. One of the
technologies that allows us to create compound documents is OpenDoc.
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<p>Subtopics:
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<li> <a href="1.2.1"> 1.2.1 The 1970s - Documents by Hand</a>
<li> <a href="1.2.2"> 1.2.2 The 1980s-Application-Level Integration</a>
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