Message-Id: <mailto:199507101659.LAA17094@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:10:37 -0700 From: Robert MacKimmie <mailto:rm@CALIFHISTSOC.ORG> Subject: Re: request for info on free imaging software : TIFF is probably To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I just wanted to bring up "standards" regarding this whole issue.Glenn Gernert mentioned porting documents to Adobe's Acrobat format. Acrobat is not a "standard." It may be widely used, but there is not universal access as is usually provided by true "ISO standards."
The world in general has made a huge leap forward with the net and web; the reason being real standard formats that any platform can access. Until such time as Acrobat becomes an ISO standard and is able to be supported by all platforms, it remains a proprietary information format and not universally accessable.
Therefore TIFF, JPEG, SGML and the most currently approved level of HTML remain the only safe formats to use, at least by my two-cented wisdom.
PS---my computer platform does not have Acrobat access tools, so I remain on the outside of this " standard", though my machine uses TCP/IP and NFS.
Regards,
Robert MacKimmie California Historical Society, San Francisco. mailto:RM@califhistsoc.org