What is a document? The dictionary defines a document as: writing that provides information; anything serving as a representation of a person’s thinking by means of symbolic marks. As with many other definitions this one is behind the times. Documents have changed. Paper documents were a simple concept, but digital documents are much more complex. Documents make transformations, which include:     Content transformation: relationships with external documents Time transformation: the evolution of the document’s semantics. Social transformations: collaborative distributed authoring rights processes. Format transformations: paper to digital form and back again Representation transformation: text, voice, video, paper, PDA screens, laptop screens, etc. The new document is live, dynamic, updateable, freezes when printed or converted to a static document, lives on the net and is hyperlinked with links that are resolved at rendering time. The new document is also intelligent, adaptable and understands the limitation of delivery and communication channels and of viewing or printing equipment and adapts itself accordingly. Sunwest Document Technologies, Inc. has spent 27 years helping companies develop and understand their documents.