"[1][2] Compound documents are often produced using word processing software, and may include text and non-text elements such as barcodes, spreadsheets, pictures, digital videos, digital audio, and other multimedia features.
Compound document technologies are commonly utilized on top of a software 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: The first public implementation of compound documents was on the Xerox Star workstation, released in 1981.
[4] A vBook is an eBook that is digital first media with embedded video, images, graphs, tables, text, and other media.
[5] This multimedia software-related article is a stub.