25 Jun
1997
25 Jun
'97
1:47 p.m.
Kai,
Nice initial stab at some standards. I am a little concerned that this
is a bit PC-centric. I would like to make sure that those of us on the
fringe (not using Windows machines or Macs) don't get left out. This
may mean lowering the standards to be a little more inclusive.
Maybe these are all cross-platform standards, I don't know. Can any of
the VMS/AmigaOS/TOS/whatnotOS people read and write all of these formats?
I'm not trying to start a religious war. I want to be able to make use
of and possibly contribute to the archive.
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
Hey, figuring out standards like this is what I do. I
recommend:
JPEG for photo scans (brochures, ads, etc.)
- It's the Internet photo file format standard
xv can be used to view these so Unix/X is covered.
Compressed 1-bit, 300 dpi TIFF for schematics
- Almost everything supports TIFF, including tons of shareware and
Wang's free image processing add-on for Win95
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/wang.htm)
- 1-bit means monochrome (not grayscale). Use JPEG for images.
- Images should be 300 dpi, 8 1/2" x 11", i.e. 2550 x 3300 (don't worry
about scanning white space, it takes no space at all when compressed)
I'm not so sure that "everything" supports TIFF. After a little looking,
I couldn't even find a TIFF file to test with xv.
Is there a reason that postscript cannot be used? Most of the schematics
out there that I have seen have been postscript files.
TXT for text documents that don't use formatting
- 80-column with carriage returns please
Text is good.
RTF (Rich Text Format) for text documents that use formatting
- WordPerfect, Word, WordPad, etc. will save in this format
Is there anything under Unix which can read and/or write RTF?
Why not use postscript for publishing the formatted documents?
--pec
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