From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUrPA-0003UW-Hp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:57:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9QJum1W019128; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:56:48 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9QJqwCe007625 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:52:59 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E6C1CCF16 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:51:37 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:52:57 +1300 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use? In-Reply-To: <435FD32D.6010101@gmail.com> References: <435FD32D.6010101@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20051027084952.F845.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: ab5b46df-b98e-4cf0-9b7c-e019fe82e9b3 X-Archives-Hash: d916329a1b84adfe5c0b88c7625f38c6 On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:04:13 +0200 Antoine wrote: > > So the conclusion: for typical office workers, we can forget PS format. > > > > Now welcome for suggestions. > > I think the key to this whole story is the second to last line above. > "for typical office workers" says it all. I think you are quite right to > say you can forget PS format. You could probably stick with pdf if you > only need the documents for 2-5 years. PDF is very much industry > standard for archiving, and isn't going away soon. > I would *definitely* think about keeping documents (if you are going to > go to the trouble of archiving and all that) in text format, probably > xml like odt or even m$ xml, because if the data are valuable then > finding something to read it in 50 years will probably be difficult. The > EU is looking like it will go that way just like Massachusetts - no > reason why you shouldn't either. You will ALWAYS be able to find or > create a tool to get decently printed and onscreen presentation from > well marked up plaintext. Don't forget that some documents that a "typical office worker" wants to archive may not be available as text. They may be scanned or fax documents. Our scanner /printer at the office outputs in .pdf or .tiff. I could build a fax server to receive documents and save them in .tiff or pdf. Suddenly it makes sense to save a whiole lot of stuff as pdf. As you say, it isn't going away soon! Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list