On 6/16/2012 8:34 AM, William (Bill) R. Linhart wrote: > I recently attended a meeting of museum curators at the Pennsylvania > Historical Society and the recommendation there was a minimum of 300 > dpi minimum, and a specification of 600 dpi recommended, for document > PRESERVATION. The format recommended was TIF uncompressed. These > can be very large image files.
> Therefore, if the next version of Legacy did not support our large > images like the current version, we might be told then that Legacy was > never intended to support them. Ouch! > > My question is: What is the supplemental strategy for PRESERVATION of > images that is appropriate to complement Legacy now that I know that > Legacy is not designed to support image PRESERVATION specifications? > > > Bill > Philadelphia, Pennsylvania It amazes me that people are unable to distinguish between a genealogical program and an image and document preservation method. To use an image efficiently for DISPLAY within Legacy, you make an appropriate COPY to use with Legacy. To PRESERVE an image or document for posterity or donation, you keep the ORIGINAL, in the best format for preservation, in a separate (preferably several) locations. And why must you wait until you die to donate COPIES to your favorite genealogical society. These are two separate and distinct issues that have NO effect on each other. I can not understand the whining and complaining because Legacy doesn't use PRESERVATION copies for display. If the images and documents are not important enough for YOU to take the responsibility to take necessary action to preserve your images and documents its certainly not Legacy's responsibility to do it for you. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm 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
