scope:

The purpose of ISO 8613 is to facilitate the interchange of documents.

In the context of ISO 8613, documents are considered to be items such as memoranda, letters, invoices, forms and reports, which may include pictures and tabular material. The contentelements used withinthedocuments may include graphic characters, geometric graphic elements and raster graphic elements, all potentiallywithinone document.

NOTE - ISO 8613 is designed to allow for extensions, including typographical features, colour, spreadsheets and additional types of content such as sound.

ISO 8613 applies to the interchange of documents by means of data communications or the exchange of storage media.

It provides for the interchange of documents lor either or both of the following purposes:

- to allow presentation as intended by the originator;

- to allow processing such as editing and reformatting.

The composition of a document in interchange can take several forms:

- formatted form, allowing presentation of the document;

- processable form, allowing processing of the document;

- formatted processable form, allowing both presentation and processing.

ISO 8613 also provides for the Interchange of ODA information structures used for the processing of interchanged documents.

Furthermore, ISO 8613 allows for the interchange of documents containing one or more different types of content such as character text, images, graphics and sound.

This part of ISO 8613

- defines character content architectures that can be used in conjunction with the document architecture defined in ISO 8613-2:

- defines the internal structure of content conforming to these character content architectures;

- defines those aspects of positioning and imaging applicable to presentation of these character content architectures in a basic layout object;

- defines the presentation attributes and control functions applicable to these character content architectures,

- describes a content layout process which, together with the document layout process described in ISO 8613-2, determines the layouf of character content in basic layoul objects and the dimensions of these basic layout objects.