> > We are currently investigating distributing our data on CD's for our > customers and need to > convert all our images/documents to a common format. > > If you have experienced this before, what common format type would you > choose to > base all of our data on. e.g. TIF, JPG, PDF, .... Can you give a > reason. The three most common types of files out there are .PCX, .BMP, and .GIF. While these all have their limitations, they are also all recognized by nearly everything. And the inherent compression that they offer is pretty darn good in most cases. .TIF files are too big for most of what I do. .JPG files are compressed using a lossy compression scheme I don't have any experience with .PDF. /Paul