I recommend TIFF >6.0 for both color and & b/w.
KG7FU
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Makin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: ARRL Handbook on CD
> PDF (Acrobat) v4 is very close to Postscript Level 3. V3 and below are a
> different format.
>
> > for the compression, it's kinda lousy atleast on standard 150 dpi scans
> > of B&W text. A standard G4 tiff is 25% smaller than the pdf - I guess it
>
> It depends on how you generate and store the image withing the PDF
> document. G4 compressed TIFF images can be stored natively within PDF's
as
> can JPEGS. The PDF spec recommends that JPEG be used for photos and G4
> compressed TIFF be used for black and white images. We've been looking at
> this where I work as we have 9 million G4 compressed tiff images that we
> want to serve up via the web.
>
