On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Here's my final test of PDF vs ZBM <g>
> (these are 200dpi instead of the 72dpi in my first conversion)
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
> western1_200dpi.zip 38216 bytes
> western2_200dpi.zip 51756 bytes
> (added together, they are still less than 50% the size of the original PDF)
Certainly better, but still not magazine quality like
the PDF. ;-)
- Steve (who still says each file format has its own little niche)
