Document File Formats

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What is the best format to keep a given document in?

Source of document: paper

TIFF: this is a scanner output format and can be compressed

Some people are promoting the use of PDF's for document stoage.

What are the trade offs?

  1. PDF is a doc format, TIFF is more of an image format. Programs to

view PDF's are a little more user-friendly and widely available.

  1. Both standards are pretty much open and universal.
  2. Sizes?
  3. Can I store both image and text data in a PDF? Dang, where's that PDF of the Acrobat PDF Bible?? Where are the specs for PDF format?

Source of document: digital

audio: mp3 (yes I know it's a copyrighted format but it's ubiquitous)

photo: jpeg

movie: mpeg4

text files: I don't want to store formatted text files for long term access in MS-Word format! What format does OO use?

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