Re: What is with those LOUSY cine tiffs from spies???

From: Bill Paul <kf6bbl_at_cox.net>
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 05:37:26 EDT

At 06:20 PM 7/8/2002 -0500, Gregg Woodcock wrote:
> >
> > http://www.stormaster.com/Spies/arcade/schematics/cine/serv17.tiff
>
>What is up with THAT? Over 1/3 of those files are corrupt and NONE of them
>will print for me! Not only that, about half of the files which are corrupt
>cause virtual memory to be completely consumed and lock up my PC!!! I'd
>love to take a serious look at those service bulletins but it is impossible
>right now. Why in the WORLD aren't those jpegs?

For 1 bit/pixel docs like this, schematics, etc, tiff has the best
compression. A jpeg would have smeared blocks of letters, blury lines, and
other junk that would make it unreadable. Fax machines use the same
compression used on this particular tiff document.
-Bill

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