ISO/IEC 8632 is the ISO standard for 2-dimensional computer graphics metafiles. SVG is the W3C Recommendation for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Instead of using ISO/IEC 8632 or W3C SVG, the proposed standard refers to Windows Metafiles, Enhanced Metafiles, DrawingML, and VML. Even though the use of ISO/IEC 8632 or W3C SVG is possible, conforming implementation must support also all defined proprietary graphic formats.

Remove all references to proprietary formats from normative parts and use ISO/IEC 8632 and/or other state of the art graphic formats where applicable.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment FI-0007 (Modified: 2008-01-09) Below, we address each of your concerns: Vector graphics is an important component of modern document formats, and many document formats recognize the need for a vector graphics markup language specifically created for their needs. For example, in ISO/IEC 26300 ( http://www.oasis- open.org/committees/download.php/19274/OpenDocument-v1.0ed2-cs1.pdf ), a new XML markup language and namespace have been defined to represent drawings necessary for the ODF document format. The definition of this new drawing namespace can be found in §1.3 page 31 of the ODF standard, and is used widely in ODF: Prefix Description Namespace draw For elements and attributes that describe graphic content. urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0 In the DIS 29500, we have included DrawingML as the vector graphics markup language necessary for DIS 29500 and have documented this markup language within the specification. DrawingML allows DIS 29500 to achieve its goals of faithfully representing the graphics in the existing corpus of binary documents. In regards to Windows Metafiles and Enhanced Metafiles, there are no requirements on these formats for implementers of DIS 29500. This is covered in more detail in the responses to the following National Body comments: BR-0058; CA-0063; CA-0074; CL-0210; CL-0211; CO-0227; CO-0228; CZ-0037; DE-0081; DE-0082 ; DK-0036; DK-0038; DK-0148; DK-0157; ECMA-0044; FR-0374; FR-0375; GB-0491; GB-0493; GR-0090; GR-0091; IN-0008; IN-0016; IN-0020; IR-0051; IR-0052; KR-0005; KR-0021; KR-0022; PE-0006; PT-0112; PT-0113; US-0158; US-0159; UY-0005. In regards to VML, we will remove VML from its current location in the specification (Part 4, §6, pages 4,343-4,960), and place it into a new annex for deprecated features. Deprecated features should not be used in newly created Office Open XML documents. This is covered in more detail in the responses to the following National Body comment: CA-0076; CO-0076; CO-0223; CZ-0004; CZ-0011; DE-0018; DE-0020; DE-0021; DE-0115; DE-0116; DK-0058; DK-0095; DK-0155; FI-0008; GB-0177; GB-0190; GB-0476; GB-0477; GR-0087; IE-0009; JP-0030; KE-0047; KE-0064; MX-0006; US-0092; US-0152; UY-0002; VE-0013; ZA-0016.