[Coco] Re: M.E.S.S. Printing

[John E. Malmberg]

KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/19/03 6:10:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, wb8tyw at qsl.net 
> writes:
> 
>>Of course I am more interested in open formats instead of proprietary 
>> formats.
> 
> Well, apparently there are books available which document GIF and BMP 
> standards, which means they're not really proprietary.

BMP is pretty much an open format, as are most of the simple bit map 
storage modes.  GIF was very popular until Compuserve tried to sue and 
collect royalties on their patent, at which point it appears that a 
large number of sites totally banned GIFs to prevent being liable for 
the royalties.

> Open formats are nice, but that pretty much sticks you with Linux, while in 
> the real world we have to deal with getting stuff done in Windows or (talk 
> about proprietary non-standards) Mac.

For COCO work, most of the simpler well known formats would probably 
work.  PDF is way too complex for storing COCO images, aside from it 
being an Adobe proprietary format.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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