-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/10/2012 04:20 PM, Craig Bradney wrote: > On 6/10/12 10:15 PM, Richard Foley wrote: >> When creating a PDF with Scribus, is there any particular >> advantage to converting JPG photographs to TIFF format, before >> generating a PDF? >> >> I ask because this was recommended to me as the right way to >> proceed to generate a PDF for printing via LSI for instance, but >> it is unclear to me as to why this would be in any way >> beneficial. It seems to me likely merely to increase the file >> sizes required, but am happy to be corrected. >> >> Thanks for any clarification. >> > > If the images are already jpgs, then any conversion should be > avoided. Yes, its likely you just get larger images, but possibly > will lose some data. JPG is fully supported by PDF so LSI should > not have any issues with them. Of course, converting to JPG blindly > may mean you lose quality and depending on the type of file > (photo/flat drawing etc) may not gain you much space. > and the thing to add that if you DO process the image externally and will be saving it afterward, this is where a TIFF might be useful since it's lossless.
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