[Color Computer] Re: [Coco] why you should stick with pdf

[Charles Richmond]

>I would have to agree with John on this; Even though jpg is a "new"
>standard compared to gif, gif as a standard is still around and still
>widely used, it just means that you have to pay royalty fees to
>whomever owns the gif format now; pdf is beyond that, i don't see adobe
>asking for royalty fees everytime someone publishes a document in pdf
>format.  Given the amount of documents already in pdf format, it will
>be around for a very very long time.  At this point I doubt djvu will
>catch on (it may or may not) as pdf has.
>
I believe the problem with the gif format was...the LZW compression 
method that it used was patented. My understanding is that the patent 
has now run out, so there may be *no* longer any problem with gif...

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