Subject: Re: XP design for image support
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 06:04:38 CDT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:14:57AM +0200, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Absolutely NO. I'm totally against this. Why ? See how a big mess it will be.
> Take the example of RTF: picture format supported are PICT, WMF, DIB, BMP, JPEG,
> PNG, TIFF, GIF, etc. Not really a few for an *interchange* format.
>
> So we should onle save PNG, SVG and JPEG (I'm pushing hard for this).
>
> When it comes to object embedding, any object embedded MUST include its last
> representation, for display and printing purpose, in one of the 3 support
> file format (most likely SVG).
Yes, yes, yes, +6. :-)
Actually, I'm still not convinced about jpeg. Hub, what kind of space
savings are we talking about here?
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