#fileformatfriday — Public Fediverse posts

New blog post for #fileformatfriday - #PDF Quality assessment for #digitisation batches with #Python, #PyMuPDF and #Pillow. This introduces the new #Pdfquad tool, which might be useful for others as well:

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2024/12/13/pdf-quality-assessment-for-digitisation-batches-with-python-pymupdf-and-pillow

What’s the wisdom on how to convert Sound Designer 2 files from 2002? We have a couple of thousand, unfortunately saved without their Mac resource fork. #digipres #fileformatfriday

ICYMI - are "octal escape sequences" in #PDF strings really a preservation risk, as claimed by the authors of the recent "The Phantom 👻 of a PDF File" blog post?

Some quick tests I did with eight different PDF processing tools suggest they're not, and #JHOVE's inability to handle them really seems to be the exception here #wtfPDF #fileformatfriday

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2024/11/14/escape-from-the-phantom-of-the-pdf

@Thorsted Happy #fileformatfriday !
https://mastodon.social/@lethal_guitar/113163640154227577

A new blog post... Finding Formats in WikiData: https://anjackson.net/2024/07/12/finding-formats-in-wikidata/ #DigiPres #FileFormatFriday

For #fileformat Friday, I present the wonder that is Dexvert. This is the conglomeration that allows Discmaster to present so many files as viewable items.
https://github.com/Sembiance/dexvert #fileformatfriday

In the style of “this meeting could have been an email”:

This XML file could have been a text file

This JSON file could have been a text file

This XLS file could have been a text file

This PPT file could have been a text file

This JPG file could have been a text file

This WordDoc file could have been a text file

Also:

This XLS file should have been a database

#unix #fileformatfriday

Happy #fileformatfriday - why not pick up a lovely illustrated book by @ashley describing many of these?
https://mediaguides.archivesoftomorrow.com/