Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

[spam@luddite.ca (Simon Williams)]

Scott Alfter <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org.is.invalid> wrote:

>   Multiple pages can then be
> stuffed into a single TIFF file with lossless compression of some sort (such
> as group 3 fax).  A full page at 300 dpi is about 1 MB compressed, so this
> should work out to something a bit less when compressed.

My experience has been that it's better to generate uncompressed TIFFs
and then compress them as Stuffit archives which often brings them down
to much less than 10% of the original file size.
The following eg shows two greyscale 8.5x11 TIFF files at 300dpi and
150dpi packed with Stuffit Deluxe

original                 stuffed
300 dpi / 8.04 MB.........188 KB
150 dpi / 2.02 MB..........83 KB

As far as resolution goes, 300 dpi is more than adequate for most
purposes and I'd say that for text 150 dpi is acceptable. I'd use
greyscale rather than b/w for text just to allow antialiasing of the
fonts.
-s
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