True enough. I have found that scanning at 300dpi and using Acrobat to make a 
PDF results in a very legible iPad viewable book. I converted all my Rubank 
Oboe books into PDF (they were literally falling apart) and they look amazing.


On Dec 11, 2010, at 1:26 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:

> 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).


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