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2006.04.19 10:45 "TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Rui Castro
2006.04.19 11:40 "Re: TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Leonard Rosenthol
2006.04.19 19:26 "Re: TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Glenn Widener
2006.04.19 21:03 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Leonard Rosenthol
2006.04.19 21:22 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Bob Friesenhahn
2006.04.19 21:38 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Leonard Rosenthol
2006.04.19 21:52 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Bob Friesenhahn
2006.04.19 22:47 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Leonard Rosenthol
2006.04.19 23:05 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Bob Friesenhahn
2006.04.19 23:27 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Leonard Rosenthol
2006.04.19 23:34 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Graeme Gill
2006.04.19 23:41 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Graeme Gill
2006.05.01 01:34 "JBIG2 patent situation", by Glenn Widener
2006.05.01 16:07 "Re: JBIG2 patent situation", by Dwight Kelly
2006.04.20 07:30 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Brad Hards
2006.04.19 11:49 "Re: TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Rocky Pulley
2006.04.19 12:40 "Re: TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Gerben Vos
2006.04.20 20:27 "Re: TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by <melser.anton@gmail.com>

2006.04.19 11:40 "Re: TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Leonard Rosenthol

At 06:45 AM 4/19/2006, Rui Castro wrote:
> I'm working in a digital preservation project for the Portuguese
> National Archive. Currently we need to migrate a bunch of images created
> in a previous digitization project to a new physical support. The images
> have 2 colors (Black and White) are in TIFF format with Group4
> compression. These images are going to be stored in a safe way until
> 2013, preferably in TIFF format (with or without compression).

Why not use PDF/A then?  It's an ISO standard for long term 
archival storage of electronic documents.   See 
<http://www.aiim.org/article-pr.asp?ID=30413> for details.


Leonard

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