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Incomputing, acompound document is adocument that "combines multipledocument formats, either by reference, by inclusion, or both."[1][2] Compound documents are often produced usingword processing software, and may include text and non-text elements such asbarcodes,spreadsheets,pictures,digital videos,digital audio, and othermultimedia features.
The first public implementation of compound documents was on theXerox Starworkstation, released in 1981.[3]
Compound documenttechnologies are commonly utilized on top of asoftware componentry framework, but the idea of software componentry includes several other concepts apart from compound documents, and software components alone do not enable compound documents. Well-known technologies for compound documents include:
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