Re: Scanning?

[Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>]

Mike Maginnis <maginnis@tarnover.org> writes:
> The basics: JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG.  The problem (or one of them, anyway)
> is that the only format that has save "options" is JPG, where one can
> choose the quality (High, Medium, Low), with Medium at ~200K files.

When you save as TIFF, what do you get?  TIFF is one of those all-
encompassing formats that can store things in a zillion different ways.
You can email me one to analyze if you like.

Saving as GIF might enable you to do a lossless conversion to G4.

How many photographs or other continuous-tone images are in the
documents you want to scan?  (Line art is OK for G4.)

If you want to see examples of scanned G4 documents, grab almost anything
in the PDF section of www.bitsavers.org.  They're almost all G4, except
the cover pages of some things that are color use JPEG compression.

Best regards,
Eric