On Mon, April 28, 2008 10:49, editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I can still open TIFFs from the 1980s -- tiff has an open, extensible > architecture that pretty much guarantees backward compatibility. I > wouldn't worry about tiff files not being compatible in the future. Image formats have been much more stable than text document formats in the digital world. I expect TIFF and JPEG to be supported in major imaging programs for a good long time. But one still needs to keep an eye on the issue. I can easily imagine that RAW format from a somewhat obscure early camera won't be supported in any current software by the end of this century; probably even by the middle. And some brilliant insight may well replace JPEG fairly suddenly (if the new format is clearly superior). I don't see it on the horizon, but an archive manager should keep his ear to the ground. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
