Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:50:14 -0700 >From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Film is Archival > >I took my research for my masters, which was done on >some old DOS word processing program, and upgraded it to >an OS/2 word processor called DeScribe. I'm still >waiting to convert it once more to my Mac OS X Microsoft >Word. I'd make it ASCII, but then I'd lose >allformatting. A suggestion: Do not archive data in proprietary formats such as Word: RTF is a widely-supported open standard, and it'll retain most text formatting just fine. For photos, I'd prefer uncompressed TIFFs to say, Photosphop documents, and I might want to archive them on ISO9660-standard CD-ROMs , not Apple's HFS+, (and on CD-R, not CD-RW). I think few people are dilligent enough to keep updating their file formats and media every few years, and that RTF, TIFF and ISO9660 are fairly safe bets for the lazy. Since you've got a OS X, you can also save files as .tar.gz (older, but widely supported) or .tar.bz2 (more efficient) compressed archives. My latest photos are on black-and-white film, taken with the Leica R4sP + 35/2.8 Elmarit-R. Sometimes it seems easier than dealing with all of the above ;-) Jeff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html