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Adobe Releasing New Photo Format

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 27, 2004 @02:21AM from the the-raw-images dept.

salmonz writes "Toronto Star just posted a story that Adobe is releasing a new digital picture format; the Digital Negative Specification,or DNG. " Supposed to be use in raw photo formats; without the lossyness of JPEG.

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I can't remember... by datadriven · 2004-09-27 02:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Are we supposed to hate Adobe?

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Re:What does the "G" stand for? by ari_j · 2004-09-27 02:45 · Score: 4, Funny

And, in PNG, the G stands for Graphics; Portable Network Graphics. I know it's a stretch, but possibly Adobe meant the G in DNG to also stand for Graphics. I know it seems to have nothing to do with the file format at hand, but it's possible. I mean, they made PDF, which has nothing to do with Firearms even though the ATF's F stands for that. It's just an Adobe thing, I guess.
Oh great, now we have to deal with new terminology by Klowner · 2004-09-27 03:09 · Score: 4, Funny

So they're gonna be pronounced as "Ding" I'm assuming, consider the possibilities:

Dude2: "Hey Dude, I have a funny picture to send you"
Dude1: "Dude, wait, I have dialup and it's gonna take forever"
Dude2: "No way dude, it's a ding, it'll only take a moment, here it comes"
Dude1: "Okay, got it .. Dude, is that a ding of my dong? HTF DID YOU GET THAT?"

... I shall stop here
Re:And my whole point was... by arose · 2004-09-27 05:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't underestimate the ability to patent things you haven't invented. :-D

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