Have you looked at the line drawing on my site? The lines are sharp enough
to make this a good discussion medium. People who need accurate
communication should use source files or pdf.
Note that I'm not arguing what jpg is meant to be good for but it seems you
are exaggerating the effect. Perhaps TC uses the right Q value and other
tricks to optimize for line drawings.
Sander
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ERPS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ERPS] CAD programs
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Sander Pool wrote:
> > I suppose jpg output is a decent way of sharing TC drawings...
>
> For line drawings, it's not as good as PostScript, because JPEG is
> optimized for photographs. That is, it specializes in good compression of
> shades of gray/color, rather than crisp rendering of details in B&W line
> art. In the one example I've got on hand that's rendered in both formats,
> the JPEG file is twice the size and noticeably fuzzy.
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