All of your points about file size of images are no doubt valid - but I just wonder that anyone would think Legacy was designed to be a PRESERVATION tool. Surely it is only ever meant to be a Record Management System with capability to produce intelligible reports for sharing / documenting those records. I have hundreds of images in my reports, and if they were all 20MB or so the file size of my reports would be enormous and to my mind unwieldy. So, if I want preservation quality images I would naturally expect to save them in some other program or simply in a specific folder to be accessed by an imaging program.
Cheers Jan -----Original Message----- From: William (Bill) R. Linhart [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2012 22:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] c:\Legacy_Archive\Pictures ---AND--- c:\Legacy\Pictures ? 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. An 8 x 10 inch image at 300 dpi (the minimum) is about 21 MB in TIFF uncompressed in my testing. This resolution is especially important for the PRESERVATION of handwriting and 6 point fonts, they told us. However, they did not make exceptions for photographs of groups of people or for portraits. The discussion was about PRESERVATION. There was no discussion of compromise in this meeting of museum curators. This is what I got from Legacy Technical support regarding my trouble tickets on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:46 PM " ... we recommend that you make smaller jpgs of 150-200 KB ... Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree ..." I conclude that Legacy was not deigned to be used to meet today's PRESERVATION standards. Legacy is a good records management system (referred to as an RMS in the meeting I attended) that stores metadata external to the images (not to be confused with metadata stored within the image file - a completely different topic ). Those external images that Legacy links to should be about 150-200 KB JPG's according to Sherry (see above). Also Jim at Legacy technical support is more generous in specifying approximately 300 KB. Jim at Legacy said my 1,100 KB JPG's should be reduced to about 30 % of that size. Apparently there is no published specification for Legacy maximum image sizes. However, technical support at Legacy does have one they use when you contact them for assistance. 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
