Future of CDROM, DVD, etc. Images?

[Don McAllister]

Richard Zander wrote:

>  The absolute minimum expectation
> for continued long-term support from libraries for storing and making
> readable publications is ASCII, Unicode, HTML 4.0, and .PDF formats, and
> many graphics formats. Anything more than this (at the present time) is
> wishful thinking.

Text looks like it has some solid standards.  But illustrations are pretty
important in taxonomy.  How standard are the formats for image files?

don
Don McAllister