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To: Sundial List sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Subject:More PDF Advantages
Date sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:11:25 -0700
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Hi All
I often email drawings and pictures of sundials to clients and people on
this list
x-richHi John,
PDF has a number of graphics formats. There is the high resolution one based on TIFF technology and used for printing fine documents and a very lossy form of JPEG format for very small and only viewable on screen. If sending to a printer the first should be used, to be small
Hi John,
JPEG is good for photographed images (of real objects). If you have
drawings with few colors and strong contrasts the JPEG format is not
the best choice. GIF and sub formats of TIFF are suitable for such
graphics (produced by computer software) because they conserve the bits
of the
Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
To my amazement, the PDF file was 20% of the size of the JPEG! The JPEG
was
240 KBs. and the PDF was only 46 KBs. This allows me to quickly email more
pictures on my crummy 56K modem.
Although I haven't done the proper tests I suspect
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From: Patrick Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:07 AM
Subject: More PDF Advantages
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Hi All
I often email drawings and pictures of sundials to clients and people on
this list. But I always have to be careful not to send too many at once, or
my email will reject my mail for being too large. To email photographs, I
use JPEG format. And to send Delta Cad drawings I scanned the
