Justin Skists wrote: > Isn't JPEG with 0 compression also known as TIFF? > No! Joint Photographic Experts Group = Tagged Image File Format?
TIFF is pretty much the standard bitmap graphic format for most types of repro work - scanned images for magazines, etc. TIFFs can be compressed using LZW (Lempel Ziv Welch) compression, never JPEG compression. Also they can be saved as either RGB (screen) or CMYK (print) separated. Personally, I prefer DCS EPS as they're a lot faster to print (and can be JPEG compressed, if necessary), but that seems to place me in a minority of one, and DCS doesn't work too well in most PC apps anyway. JPEG on the other hand is a rather nasty format on the whole (IMO). Sure, it makes tiny files which don't look too bad on screen, but when printed, all the blocks of colour (are they called 'artifacts' or something strange like that?) become _really_ obvious, even with minimal compression. They're RGB only, and they take a huge length of time to decompress when printing via even the newer RIPs... In fact, most times they'd be converted into TIFFs before printing. But now I'm getting all Pre-Press Bureau Nerd-y. Gordon The Pre-Press Bureau Guy With The Acronym Fetish. -- < The HEXdidn't... Homepage: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> < ------ Featuring The U.K. Policenauts Homepage ------ > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< http://www.hexdidnt.clara.net > \---------- AOL Instant Messenger: 'hexdidnt' ----------/
