On 2012/06/16 06:18, CE WOOD wrote: > This can be a major problem if you are considering donating your records, > items, and computer files to some institution, such as the New England > Historical and Genealogical Society. Your donee will not be able to redo your > files. They will want pictures and other multimedia to be in the most > detailed format possible. That often means LARGE files. If Legacy is unable > to accommodate this, we better look for a different program!
As has been mentioned numerous times, the best way to keep your photographs is as two copies of everything. A first, high-resolution copy probably in TIFF format. And a second, JPG version which is the one actually linked to the Legacy database. And it's a fallacy that you need any more than 600 dpi because the resolution won't be there in the original to begin with. Images of documents can be dealt with in much the same way, but if you're downloading these from the 'Net, you don't really have much choice as to the resolution your images are supplied in, so your NEHGS is going to be flat out of luck here if they want higher than is available. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
