Date:         Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:54:55 -0700
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: VERY IMPORTANT: Bentley Publishers donates 100% of web
Comments: To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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On 1/10/05 3:10 PM, "Jim Felder" <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote:

> Jimt,
> 
> Why would (or how would may be the term) a company go to the trouble to
> develop their own proprietary graphics format? I don't have one to look
> at, but even the richest publishing houses use some standard like GIF,
> TIF, JPEG or EPS.
> 
> It it's EPS, which would make it quite large and more suitable to
> vector artwork (made with real lines, not a picture of a drawing) then
> maybe. But it seems unlikely that they've developed their own graphics
> format and viewer client. Now, I'm not claiming to know this, but it
> seems unlikely.
> 
> Maybe they've just made them difficult to get to, or else you need some
> omnivorous viewer app like photoshop to see them?
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Jan 10, 2005, at 2:48 PM, jimt wrote:
> 
Misnomer..  A true new graphic format probably not but embedding the
graphics in library type files where they cannot be accessed except by the
software designed to access the database or library.  In the case of ETKA I
am told that Delphi was used to create the graphics files.

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