[email protected] said: > the problem is the freaking huge filesizes you will get. perhaps you > should instead look at one of the multi-image in single file formats, > like tiff. are you doing bw, gray, or color scans?
Depends on the page. If the page has no colour on it I do a greyscale scan and convert to B&W later. If it has colour on it I do a colour scan. Personally I always put the images through a graphics editor for tidying up. I am usually doing it because the page in question is very old and tatty, so there may well be considerable reconstruction going on. If you are using a single image for a page which is basically all text with a single small grayscale or colour graphic, then you are doing it wrong. You need to separate the page into different graphics for the different bits. A single BW 300dpi PNG as a backdrop containing all the text, then a number of over layed JPEG's containing *just* the graphic. In this manner a 29 page manual with some 6 grayscale graphics is a just 2.4MB rather than 14MB if I had done the whole lot as 29 300dpi grayscale JPEG's. My problem is all the examples I have are copyrighted so I cannot easily show you them. For There is a bit of windows software that does this automatically, but I cannot find the link now for trying. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195
