[Coco] Resolution, size and usability

[Roger Taylor]

At 07:33 AM 5/21/2009, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've only been marginally paying attention to the PDF-vs-DJVU 
>discussion until I looked at my disk stats and saw that identical 
>stuff is being uploaded in competing formats.
>
>In two weeks, CoCo archives have exploded from 9GB to 45 GB -- more 
>space than all 40 domains there used in 11 years of operation:
>   <http://maltedmedia.com/images/du-apr-may-2009.jpg>
>
>This is not a hosting complaint. It's an efficiency and usability 
>complaint. You all know I'm happy to host CoCo files, but I do 
>question an image-format experiment that duplicates large content 
>with more large content. Bill's work is much appreciated, but how 
>necessary is publication quality, high-res, color rasterizing of 
>monochrome line art and text -- especially if it includes page-back 
>shadows? Some publications to exceed 650MB.

A full-length movie in DivX format can be stored in 650mb.  650mb for 
a PDF is completely unacceptable for me.  Delete.

A graphics expert needs to be the one converting these copies of 
Rainbow and other magazines. I see no reason why 64 or even 32 
dithered colors isn't enough to render these pages down.  I've done 
it and it looks great.  First convert to 128 or 256 colors, no 
dithering, repair the coffee stains, specs, blemishes, etc., dither down.

-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com