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2006.04.19 11:40 "Re: [Tiff] TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Leonard Rosenthol
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2006.04.19 19:26 "[Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 23, Issue 17", by Glenn Widener
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2006.04.19 21:03 "Re: [Tiff] PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Leonard Rosenthol
- 2006.04.19 21:22 "Re: [Tiff] PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Bob Friesenhahn
- 2006.04.20 07:30 "Re: [Tiff] PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Brad Hards
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2006.04.19 21:03 "Re: [Tiff] PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Leonard Rosenthol
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2006.04.19 19:26 "[Tiff] Re: Tiff Digest, Vol 23, Issue 17", by Glenn Widener
- 2006.04.19 11:49 "Re: [Tiff] TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Rocky Pulley
- 2006.04.19 12:40 "Re: [Tiff] TIFF + Group4 will last 10 years?", by Gerben Vos
2006.04.19 22:47 "Re: [Tiff] PDF/A vs. TIFF", by Leonard Rosenthol
You didn't finish your sentance. I think you meant "So that's a non-issue for ISO standards". Patents are a huge issue to the world at large even if the licensing fee is "reasonable".
I'll leave this discussion to /. and direct it to /dev/null...
So, if the original presentation is not bit-mapped raster
Even if it's bitmap raster, it's more reliable in PDF/A - since all possible forms of storage of the data are well defined and fully documented. Unfortunately, that's not the case with TIFF given the variety of variants and incompatible implementations :(.
Consider the following...
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.
THAT'S the overridding concept by which the PDF/A committee (of which I am a member) were striving for during our development of the spec. (not the TIFF part, but the general concept). And for anyone that things that 100 years is a LONG TIME - that's NOTHING compared to the legal requires for the US Gov't and Nuclear Regulatory folks.
Leonard
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