30 Years of PDF: A Revolutionary Evolution in Document Management

The laptop with a text saying: 30 Years Of PDF

As 2023 unfolds, we celebrate 30 years of PDF – the groundbreaking legacy of the Portable Document Format, a true digital pioneer developed by Adobe Systems. PDF has revolutionized the way we create, share, and store documents.

In 2008, Adobe handed over control of the PDF format to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), making it an open standard. Since then, PDF has continuously evolved, adapting to the ever-expanding possibilities of the digital realm.… Read the rest

ODT – an OpenDocument Text Document file

What is an ODT file?

If you frequently work with document files, you may have already encountered an ODT document. Someone may have shared one instead of the more represented Microsoft Word DOCX file. Want to know more about this type of file format? Keep on reading. Find out how to open, edit, and convert ODT files to more common document formats.

What is an ODT file?

An ODT file is an OpenDocument Text Document file.… Read the rest

OPUS File Mini-FAQ

Seeing a file with .opus extension in the wild is a rare sight. Files using the OPUS format are everywhere but you just don’t seem to find such files when you browse the web or even when you search through the audio files in your hard drive. What is this file anyway? Do people still use it?

To answer your most burning questions about this file format, we have compiled a short list of common questions about this format plus their answers.… Read the rest

DNG vs. RAW – Which One Should You Choose?

 

Shooting RAWs is something a photographer ought to do whenever they are using cameras that support RAW files. New photographers will hear it all the time – how shooting RAWs is much better than shooting JPEGs. For those who shoot RAWs, there’s also a question of RAW vs. DNG. In what ways do these two differ? Why do people convert their RAWs to DNGs? Should you follow them?

Why do people convert their RAWs to DNG?

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Why Is WebP Still Not Popular Yet?

 

In 2010, Google first introduced WebP to the world. It was hailed as the best image format for the web. In Google’s own words WebP is …

“… a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.”

Well, it’s 2018 now and WebP is still not quite as big as Google had hoped.… Read the rest