Re: Type/Creator codes
Re: Type/Creator codes
- Subject: Re: Type/Creator codes
- From: "Ricky A. Sharp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:20:28 -0500
on 5/13/2001 9:28 AM, Uli Zappe at email@hidden wrote:
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Proprietary binary formats become less and less, and hopefully soon
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will be extinguished..
I don't think they'll ever go away. If you take a look at all files that an
application can work with, they can be categorized into the following:
(a) documents that can only be used by the application (e.g. a "high scores"
file, or prefs file). Here, using open formats often don't make any sense.
(b) documents that can be shared by others (e.g. HTML, TEXT, PDF)
But even in (b), one can still use a proprietary format, but offer services
to convert it to a portable type. I'm really looking forward to tapping
into the "Save as PDF" features. I think that's only available in Cocoa
right now.
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