Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
to recognise text within a document a search utility would need to know how it was encoded, otherwise it is just the equivalent of trying to read a foreign language you have never learned, quite possibly in a script you don't recognize, with no idea of whether to read left/right right/left top/down centre-out.....

I think the chances of windows 10 doing this are nil

I don't understand this. This is a REALLY important issue for Xara.


Are you saying:

1. That Microsoft are at fault for only allowing their search utilities to do text search through THEIR OWN file formats/encoding system?(e.g. msExcel, msWord, msPowerPoint, msOutlook etc). OR

2. Are you saying that the search utility companies are at fault for not using Xara's file format? OR

3. Are you saying that Xara is at fault for not publishing their file format?


The bottom line is that IMHO, Xara as no hope of ever getting out of "1st gear" and getting anything approaching wide-scale adoption until such time as it is their files are searchable. Why would you leave any content in Xara if you can't search for and find it afterwards?

J


PS If you are saying "1." them Xara (and similar companies?) should sue the hell out of Microsoft, because they are in a near monopoly position and using their dominant position as operating system developer to favouring their own applications.