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2006.04.19 23:34 "Re: PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Graeme Gill
Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > 100 years from now someone comes across a storage device > containing two documents - one in PDF/A and one in TIFF. There are no > current "software" products that can read either format, and so one must > be written from specification. ASSUMING that the > specifications/standard documents are available - which would be easier > to implement from scratch WITH NO REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION. Hmm. Having reverse engineered a few file formats in my time, if I stumbled across a raster file or a PDL file that I wanted to read, I know which one I'd choose - the one with the pixels. Graeme Gill.