[Coco] Master List

[Neil Morrison]

I just scanned a medium sized image. After converting to line art,
the uncompressed tiff is 329 Kb. With LZW compression and LZW
differencing on, it is 33 Kb.

As a gif, it is 5 Kb.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theodore (Alex) Evans" <alxevans at concentric.net>


> On Mar 6, 2004, at 6:37 PM, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>
> > TIFF is a very inefficient, HUGE format, with no compression.
GIF is
> > best
> > for black-and-white images, or 16 shades of gray.  On strictly
2-color
> > (black &
> > white) text and line drawings, GIF is 10x better than anything
else.
>
> I agree about TIFF being an awful file format (for these purposes)
,
> but PNG is at least as good as GIF in these cases.  Technically
there
> are a couple options for compression with TIFF, but you rarely see
> these used and some programs which support TIFF do not support
them.
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