On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Angus Lees wrote: > postscript (and pdf) is a "vector" format, meaning it contains > instructions for drawing using primitives like lines, coordinates, > areas, etc.
[snip] > a postscript may contain a bitmap image as one of its drawing > "instructions" - but the extra ps/pdf overhead makes it not as > efficient a storage format. As can a PDF. I can't speak for the overhead in PS land, but a PDF consisting of one TIFF per page is smaller (or about the same size depending) than the individual TIFF files. Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Stage 1: Steal underpants http://www.stillhq.com | Stage 2: ???? UTC + 11 | Stage 3: Profit -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
