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Revision as of 10:31, 1 August 2013

File Formats Complexity Usability Currency Fear Factor Popularity X Factor Description
.pdfa 83 72 92 86 76 52 The archival version of the popular .pdf format. It addresses various preservation risks and restricts the inclusion of more complex content (eg. embedded multimedia) that may be difficult to preserve.
.docx 99 5 15 76 95 20 The latest XML incarnation of .doc, in theory it's human readable but the documentation stretches to thousands of pages.