Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice

Hi :)
I'm completely lost now.  I have a friend that is a VJ and he goes on about their different formats 
but i have no idea.  He can just about get it when i go on about Pdf versus Odt versus DocX but 
that is pushing it.  I'm currently struggling with trying to find good formats for still images.  
When i make a poster i can get it as a fairly tiny Png which doesn't get corrupted but other people 
often give me Jpegs or Pdfs with Jpeg compression that look really awful by the time they get to 
the website or get printed.  For some reason a lot of people seem to think a good poster design is 
to make a nice jpeg image at say 4million pixels by 2 million or some ridiculously large size and 
then insert it into Word and then export to Pdf.  So the image undergoes horrible mutilations and 
is ridiculously heavy by the time they send it and they can't understand because their original 
looked good in Paint or whichever stupid program they use.  

I'm just really glad i don't have to deal with video because i'm sure people would carefully avoid 
using anything decent at any stage of the process and then expect me to present it beautifully.  
Regards from
Tom :)




> ________________________________
> From: rost52 <bugquestcontri@online.de>
> To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 
> Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 11:47
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice
>
>
> Yes, I meant VHS - it just did not pop my mind. Thanks for your help. However, Blu-ray is only a 
> storage format /technology not the video information. The video information is still in VHS or 
> BetaMax. Thus the junk of VHS is still alive. All amateur video cameras work with VHS. (I hope 
> that this is all correct!!!)
>
> http://www.blu-ray.com/info/
>
>
> On 2012-11-29 18:15, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> > I think you meant VHS but i really had to think about it. 
        Interesting to hear the Betamax really might have outlived VHS
        afterall!  People mostly moved to the various Dvd formats
        (including Bluray).  
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)  
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: rost52 <bugquestcontri@online.de>
> > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> > > Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 1:47
> > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice
> > >
> > >
> > > This reminds me to video systems: Video2000 was said to
                be the best but died quickly. Sony BetaMax 
> > > is only alive in the professional sector, but VDF (is
                this correct?), always called the worst video 
> > > system in still alive...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2012-11-29 00:14, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> > > > On 28/11/2012 at 15:55, "VA" <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > That may be
> > > > > the hazard of having a truly open and standard
                file format. It eliminates
> > > > > a  program's ability to survive.
> > > > This is far from truth.
> > > >
> > > > Take a look at e-mail protocols: POP3 and IMAP. Do
                we have only two e-mail
> > > > server apps and two e-mail client apps, one for
                each? No. We have plenty of
> > > > servers and tons of clients.
> > > >
> > > > Take a look at XMPP messaging protocol (this is
                what Gmail and Facebook uses
> > > > for their chats). Again: plenty of servers, tons of
                apps.
> > > > Take a look at BitTorrent file sharing protocol.
                There are many clients for
> > > > every platform.
> > > >
> > > > We have standards for HTML and CSS, yet there are
                at least four competing web
> > > > browsers out there (although there was time when
                market was monopolized).
> > > > This list can go on.
> > > >
> > > > Standard file formats are pretty much irrelevant to
                program's ability to
> > > > survive. It's number of features, availability on
                certain OS, UI, branding,
> > > > number translations and other things which are
                around standards that matters.
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