It all depends on wether you want the data to be still "mostly "there if
something goes wrong with the file.
AFAIK PDF and TIFF will be totally unusable with any one byte missing.
whereas HTML XML and other text based format will still have useable and
recognizable data.
Just my $0.02
Francois
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: A quandry....
> I think what I'll do is post both HTML and PDF. The OCR ability in Abbyy
> FineReader is so good as to be spooky and since I verify and hand-correct
> any errors that do show up, those two formats should be sufficient.
>
> Expect CP/M 68K docs soon as well.
>
> g.
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Will Jennings wrote:
>
> > I dunno, I prefer TIFFs, but they have the disadvantage of being honkin'
> > huge.. But at least I can go and in be anal-retentive and edit them to
look
> > better than the originals, can't edit pdfs nearly as much...
> >
> > Will J
> >
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Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 21:04:10 BST