Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very interesting indeed, Brian. Well if you took part in the development of Adobe and the PDF, I'm grateful for your output! I think I mentioned that I was print-centric and hence like the PDF very much. I'm just a user, with no development skills. Electronic paper is exactly the approach that I have worked with some years, so your hammer-nail analogy is probably apt. I had in mind short text documents with some layout formatting and sometimes small graphics. The intent being that it might provide a finished document that required no extra effort by our already hard working saloon keep, other than placing in your designated location. When I read a (light-hearted) comment that it is a format belonging to satan, I assume that you have a dislike! Regarding the DNG, your comment, as with your response here, was factual and reasonable. I thought some others were more complaints that Adobe was a monopoly not to be trusted. I disagree. A lot of the DNG issue seems to be about *open*. I can see that *published* is a better term. That being so, I think that it a commendable approach to a raw format and superior to proprietary formats. I dislike the approaches by other camera manufacturers. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian Reid Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2006 01:27 To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] anyone up for making a digital file format FAQ? >> 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. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information