And there you have it?all the reasons I hosted jpegisbad.com for a few years as a joke!
-Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | matt at mattrsullivan.com @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com On Apr 25, 2013, at 9:06 AM, "Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)" <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote: > As you have already seen the other messages, this is just an endorsement to > *avoid* JPEG for anything that contain pixels that are next to each other and > have sharp color transitions ... as happens with lines and drawings and text, > etc. > > No matter what "quality" you save the JPG with such content, the results will > not be great. Basically, the transitions from one color to another at the > edge of such objects get speckled dots - sometimes more than a few pixels far > from the color transition - and also additional "transition color" pixels on > both sides of the color change locations. > > These extra dots then show up in the printed output (if it is a high-quality > ink-jet or any color laser) and, depending on the colors, can be pretty > obviosu. The text and lines get smeared - the sharp transition between the > text color and the background color gets softened. In the worst case, narrow > lines disappear or get broken up pretty badly. > > Bottom line: JPEG's are fine for pictures, but even there, using a > high-quality JPEG (from a non-lossy source image ideally) is important - > repetitively editing and saving the JPEG from image editor programs can > increase the "noise" in the JPEG over time. > > Z > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Richard Doll > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:00 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: jpg images > > all, > > ?what version(s) of Framemaker (structured) supports and processes jpeg > format images? > > and > > ?what is the impact of their use in ink-on-paper (high quality 300dpi) > printing? > > best to all, > > dick doll > 317.539.4857 > sgmlindy at tds.net > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at mattrsullivan.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130425/684b19be/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: twitter.png Type: image/png Size: 1331 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130425/684b19be/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: linkedin.png Type: image/png Size: 1380 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130425/684b19be/attachment-0001.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: facebook.png Type: image/png Size: 1576 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130425/684b19be/attachment-0002.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: blog.png Type: image/png Size: 1222 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130425/684b19be/attachment-0003.png>
