At 05:16 PM 1/17/2002 -0500, you wrote: >On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Patrick White wrote: > > My pick is CD-Rs with JPEGs on them. Some CD-Rs are touted at > surviving > > 100 years (?) under ideal storage conditions, so they meet media longevity. > >I don't trust such numbers, especially considering CDR has only been >around for what, five years? :) > > > browsers, which all read JPEG format images, that format seems the best > >Ideally, you might want to NOT use jpeg, though, since it is technically a >lossy format. Wouldn't TIFF or something be better?
I would agree with TIFF as a format if it weren't so loosely followed. You can never be sure if a TIFF saved by one application will be readable by another, in my experience. >-- >http://www.infotainment.org > "The destructive character is cheerful." - Walter Benjamin >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
