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

From: Rodger Boots <rlboots_at_cedar-rapids.net>
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 12:17:59 EDT

For whatever it's worth, I converted this to a jpg and emailed it to him.

Bill Paul wrote:

> 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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