Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] anyone up for making a digital file format FAQ?
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Mon Nov 6 07:27:10 2006
References: <001401c70167$449456e0$6501a8c0@asus930>
 
>> I've never noticed these anti-Adobe opinions anywhere except here recently
>> (DNG & PDF).

I helped found Adobe. I was one of the original developers of what became 
the PDF format. I did my PhD dissertation on document representation 
structures. I assure you that my comments about PDF are not "anti-Adobe" but 
are about PDF.

PDF is electronic paper. It does that job very well. It is a very bad match 
to on-screen display needs.

My earlier comment about DNG was simply a statement that it is not an open 
format because it can be changed at any time by its publisher, Adobe. I like 
DNG and I use it and I am not worried about Adobe maliciously changing it, 
but it is wrong to call it an open format. DNG is, like Type-1 font 
structure, a *published* format, but not an *open* format.
Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] anyone up for making a digital file format FAQ?)
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