On 11 Dec 2010 at 14:12, Blake Richardson wrote: > Eric Dannewitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I'd scan all my stuff TIFF. They are generally larger > > than PDF. Not sure why yours are coming out smaller than PDF, > > perhaps compressed TIFFs? > > Yeah, I thought the same thing when I saw his comment. I've always > found TIFFs to bloat the size of a file beyond all proportion. Finale > only recognizes TIFFs so whenever I import a logo for the first page > of a score, the file suddenly jumps from something like 150K to > 1.5MB.
Well, that's not the fault of the TIFF standard -- it's that Finale can't deal with compressed TIFFs. I kind of understand why (there are different methods for compressing the TIFF internally, and Finale would likely only be able to support one compression method, and even supporting that would require building a file compression routine into Finale), but it's quite annoying. I would be very much surprised if a compressed TIFF were smaller than a PNG file, for instance, and if any of them assembled into a PDF would be smaller than the resulting PDF (though it depends on what settings you use for creating your PDF). -- 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
