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

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