On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Vic wrote:
> PDF, JPG and other formats, while they might be de facto standards, > are still proprietary formats, PDF is an open ISO standard, no longer controlled by Adobe; although Adobe PDF's can have proprietary parts, the pdf created by, say printing to PDF in OS X is not. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A> JPEG is also an ISO standard, and open source implementations exist. <http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg/index.html> "Probably the largest and most important contribution however was the work of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), and Tom Lane in particular. Their Open Source software implementation, as well as being one of the major Open Source packages was key to the success of the JPEG standard and was incorporated by many companies into a variety of products such as image editors and Internet browsers." TIFF is recommended as the best, not because it's an open standard, but because it's about the only widely used lossless image standard. JPEG is lossy. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
