Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

2013-04-27 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Andrew Hankinson < andrew.hankin...@gmail.com> wrote: > As someone who works on document recognition, I have to disagree. You > should always keep an uncompressed original around, since you can never > recover it without (often expensive) re-imaging. JPEG, or any o

Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew Hankinson
As someone who works on document recognition, I have to disagree. You should always keep an uncompressed original around, since you can never recover it without (often expensive) re-imaging. JPEG, or any other type of lossy compression, introduces artifacts that don't look "too bad" by the human

Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

2013-04-27 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
Yes, exactly. You will loose some of the image quality. If you change to a compressed format, then back to the TIFF, you can get the format, but you can't go back to the original file. Stop and think: What are your long term goals? Big files are clunky to work with. I'm guessing that's why yo

[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Assets Manager at Glasgow Caledonian University

2013-04-27 Thread jobs
Grade: 5 Salary Scale: £25,504 - £29,541 (Point 24 - 29)* Contract: Full-time/ Open-ended Closing Date: 06 May 2013 Ref: HR1597 Library Services at Glasgow Caledonian University wishes to appoint a Digital Assets Manager. The role holder will have responsibility for the maintena