The Total Package

Seriously, Agfa recently took a hard look at many technologies when searching for a file format that was "open." They were seeking one that could represent everything in a design document and that exchanged the file without encumbering the receiver. Agfa knew it needed to keep the file in some format that could be both exchanged reliably and edited, but which one? Tiff/It seemed to have some popular support for "exchange." But as all the design elements and type were no longer represented in such a way that permitted them to be modified or edited (it is a raster image of a page) they had to count it out, too.