[Color Computer] Re: [Coco] why you should stick with pdf

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I would have to agree with John on this; Even though jpg is a "new" 
standard compared to gif, gif as a standard is still around and still 
widely used, it just means that you have to pay royalty fees to 
whomever owns the gif format now; pdf is beyond that, i don't see adobe 
asking for royalty fees everytime someone publishes a document in pdf 
format.  Given the amount of documents already in pdf format, it will 
be around for a very very long time.  At this point I doubt djvu will 
catch on (it may or may not) as pdf has.


Woodzy
http://www.rtdos.com





-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com; CoCoList for Color Computer 
Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: 'cococlub' <cococlub at yahoogroups.com>; 'trs80mc10club' 
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Sent: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:10:45 -0400
Subject: Re: [Color Computer] Re: [Coco] why you should stick with pdf

  On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:34:46AM -0600, Michael Wayne Harwood wrote:
> Thanks for your input!  As a FYI - the DjVU format has been released 
to the
> public as an open standard.  I would imagine that it will be around 
for a

I do not share your optimism, at least not to the level that I'm sure 
PDF will
be around.

> while, but at the very least you would be able to use the tools that 
are
> available now to view and/or convert the documents to whatever format 
you
> desire as long as you do not redistribute the content or converted
> documents.

Sure, as long as I mothball a complete, working system every 3-5
years so that I can do the conversion chain...no, thanks...

John
--
John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com

   




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