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Adobe labs developed a plugin for Acrobat to create an "XML-friendly representation of PDF".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080919181131/https://blogs.adobe.com/mars/2008/09/pdfxml_plugin_prerelease.html</ref> Originally called the MARS project, it was later renamed to PDFXML. Started in 2006, the project was shutdown in 2011 and removed from public access.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110902063203/http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars</ref>
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Adobe labs developed a plugin for Acrobat to create an "XML-friendly representation of PDF".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080919181131/https://blogs.adobe.com/mars/2008/09/pdfxml_plugin_prerelease.html</ref> Originally called the MARS project<ref>http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS835/Student_Readings/p161-hardy.pdf</ref>, it was later renamed to PDFXML. Started in 2006, the project was shutdown in 2011 and removed from public access.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110902063203/http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars</ref>
  
 
== File Information ==
 
== File Information ==
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==Further information==
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Information not immediately visible through the references above.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070824012806/http://labs.adobe.com:80/technologies/mars/faq.html MARS FAQ]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070120074630/http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/ MARS via PDF Junkie]
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* [https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/27631/projekt-adobe-mars-format-pdf-s-xml/ Martin Kováč on PDF XML]
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* [http://drmacros-xml-rants.blogspot.com/2006/12/adobe-mars-looks-interesting.html Eliot Kimber - Adobe Mars: Looks Interesting]
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* [https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Mars Microsoft.Fandom: Adobe Mars]
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* [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221353051_The_Mars_project_PDF_in_XML The Mars project: PDF in XML by Matthew R. B. Hardy on ResearchGate] (also in-line at Pace Uni)
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* [https://scispace.com/pdf/mapping-and-displaying-structural-transformations-between-32fig49lb8.pdf Mapping and Displaying Structural Transformations between XML and PDF]
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Latest revision as of 10:40, 19 June 2026

File Format
Name PDFXML
Ontology
Extension(s) .mars, .pdfxml
MIME Type(s) application/vnd.adobe.x-mars, application/vnd.adobe.pdfxml
Released 2006

Adobe labs developed a plugin for Acrobat to create an "XML-friendly representation of PDF".[1] Originally called the MARS project[2], it was later renamed to PDFXML. Started in 2006, the project was shutdown in 2011 and removed from public access.[3]

[edit] File Information

The PDFXML file format uses ZIP as a container format, and SVG for each page and JPEG2000 for each image.

File format specifications and schema were published at the time, but unfortunately the archive.org captures of the website have truncated PDF's.[4] If anyone has copies of the original specification or schema please post a link here.

Basic container contains the following structure:

├── META-INF
│   ├── compatibility.pdf
│   ├── container.xml
│   └── metadata.xml
├── backbone.xml
├── bookmarks.xml
├── color
│   └── cs-0.icc
├── form
│   └── form_data.xfdf
├── mimetype
├── page
│   └── 0
│       ├── form_0.svg
│       ├── form_1.svg
│       ├── form_2.svg
│       ├── info.xml
│       ├── pg.can
│       └── pg.svg
└── script
    ├── javascripts.xml
    └── js_0

[edit] Further information

Information not immediately visible through the references above.

[edit] References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20080919181131/https://blogs.adobe.com/mars/2008/09/pdfxml_plugin_prerelease.html
  2. http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS835/Student_Readings/p161-hardy.pdf
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20110902063203/http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20061222203316/http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars/
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