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- Born Broken: Fonts and Information Loss in Legacy Digital Documents
Brown, Geoffrey; Woods, Kam
(Date Created: 05 Oct 2009)
- This paper given at iPRES 2009 (October 5-6 2009, Mission Bay, California) discusses issues related to rendering, matching and substituting fonts in legacy Word documents based on a collection of 230,000 documents. It discusses the significant risk of information loss due to missing or incorrectly substituted fonts which are not generally embedded in the documents structure.
- http://escholarship.org/uc/item/53z897zb
- Preservation of Word Processing Documents
Barnes, Ian
(Date Created: Jul 2006)
- This report addresses the issues of what are suitable file formats for the long term storage of word processing documents and how can these documents be converted to a suitable format. Several case studies are used to illustrate approaches to the problem. A prototype application, the Digital Scholar's Workbench, which implements some of the approaches in the report, is discussed. The report ends with a proposed preservation strategy for word processing documents which distinguishes between lecacy documents and those documents not yet created.
- http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/preservation_of_word_processing_do
cuments.html
- Also available as pdf
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