On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:24:34 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> western.pdf 119190 bytes (the original .PDF)
>> western.zbm 32307 bytes (screen-cap of the PDF after converting to
>> _ BMPs with GhostScript/PDF2HTM.bat and viewed
>> _ in Arachne)(screen-cap made with Cntrl+P)
> Well, that convinces me... *pdf is definitely "better."
> I can easily read the name of the town on the map,
> Paramaribo in the pdf file, but I would never have been
> able to make that out for certain on the same section of
> the bmp map. (not to mention, the colors are different)
> A pdf file is like vector graphics. You can enlarge
> and enlarge, but you don't get that blocky look when you
> do.
> http://wizard.dyndns.org/pdf.png
> http://wizard.dyndns.org/bmp.png
> PDF means Portable Document Format, and was designed
> as a way to transfer *documents* meant for printing.
> Naturally, in order for such a document to retain a
> lot of fine detail, it's going to be a larger file.
> File formats all have their trade-offs. PDF gives
> great detail at the cost of a littl more size. How
> could it be otherwise?
> - Steve
PDF format is very often used in professional printing and because I'am
an editor of a magazine I often am confronted with a PDF file.
I view them with the original Adobe viewer (Win9x) and did not encounter
a better PDF viewer... but maybe Adobe has a DOS-viewer still around?
Adobe PDF is popular in professional printing for years after all.
In professional printing the Apple Mac is the most frequently used
computer...
32 pages, A4 format, in fine detail can be fit into a 1,2Mb PDF file.
How would so much information fit in at least 32 BMP files at a
resolution of 300dpi or better? The high colored cover of the magazine
did over 6.4Mb in BMP format, just one page! Of course this can be
zipped and will become much smaller, but...
***** Maybe Adobe may one day smash M$...
Regards Bastiaan
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