Question about PDF manipulation - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jun 2005

...
 From: "Jules Richardson"
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
 ---snip--
...

If it's proprietary then the less use it is for a long-term archival
format though, surely? Same goes for complexity; increased complexity of
the format makes it harder to extract the data without the relevant
tool, which of course might be difficult to find in years to come...

cheers

Jules 
Hi
 The distinction between a distribution tool and an archival tool.
For images, the best archival format that I know of is the tiff.
Not so much that there are copious tools for it but because
it is about as simple a formatting for images as one can get.
 When down loading I prefer pdf's. It doesn't mean that I think that
an archive should use pdf's to store the images.
Dwight