OT: PC World are useless - was Re: [Gllug] OT: microdirect.co.ukreliable?

[Tethys]

Bruce Richardson writes:

>> PDF is a structured file format. It's not like OO.o or gnumeric, where
>> the whole file is compressed with gzip (spit!).
>
>Well, you may spit but it seems more accessible than the PDF approach...

At the expense of access to metadata. Which gives you the most info?

leto:~% file test.*
test.abw:      XML document text
test.gnumeric: gzip compressed data, from Unix
test.pdf:      PDF document, version 1.3
test.png:      PNG image data, 1998 x 1800, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced
test.sxw:      Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

The two structured files (PDF and PNG) give far more information about
their contents. To me, that's a win.

Tet
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