On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:55PM +0100, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> > png = lossless, jpg = lossy
>
> JPG is meant for photographs and nothing else. (Stuff with smooth color
> gradients.)
>
> > with text this matters a lot.
>
> Yup. Maybe TIFF would be better, it features compression and lacks the
> copyright problems of GIF.
The scanner produced .tiff files, which were 36MB zipped. AFAIK you really
can't beat the compression of .png -- it does far more than just compress
it with zlib.
> > > Another advantage is that you can view JPG's on your MSX.
>
> You don't want that, it takes forever! :)
> Especially when you consider to read those docs, you don't want to do that
> on MSX from JPG files.
A plain ascii version would be nice. Then we can also add things and
correct mistakes. It's must faster to download and easy to read on an MSX.
Nothing wrong with plain text IMHO. :-)
Sean
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