On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Michael Good wrote:
Regarding the recent posts about digital archiving:
MusicXML was designed in part for just this sort of archival purpose.
Because it is a text-based format - not binary like PDFs -
PDFs are usually binary because of the advantage of using compression
for both storage space and transmission speed. It's perfectly legal to
write PDFs in text format (and about the only way to get comfortable
with the format--which becomes reasonably legible if one knows the
tags). In addition there are PDF->PostScript convertors. PostScript is
text.
For most musicians, the practical side of this is being able to reuse
your music if your software company goes out of business (like Music
Printer Plus)
Yes. Keep up the "Good" work!
Cheers,
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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