On 7 Sep 2006 at 10:28, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Phil Daley / 2006/09/07 / 06:20 AM wrote: > > >If it reduces the size it will also reduce the resolution and make > >everything jaggy. > > You are confused. Resolution and bit depth is two different things. > > Finale output is 2 bit. TIF will maintain in 2 bit. As soon as you > convert it too GIF, the file becomes 8 bit, which is a total waste for > Finale output.
But not everyone has a TIF viewer. And GIFs are palette-based, so it actually comes out smaller. I just exported a single system TIF at 600dpi. The file size was 226KB. When I saved that as a GIF its size was 105KB. A JPG of the same graphic at 15% compression was 634KB, and at 0% compression, 902KB. The PNG version was 52KB. It's pretty clear that GIF or PNG is the best format, as I said on the front end. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
