Re: PDF or JPEG for map scanning?

Michael Chesterton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.chat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/03/2008, at 10:48 PM, Michael Lake wrote:
>
> I have read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
> a bit about how PDF stores images. Answer=Many different ways. JPEG  
> does it one
> way. Scanning as a TIFF I think will end up being too big in file  
> sizes.
>
> Does anyone have any advice / experience here?

No experience, but I would try to get them in TIFF then you can  
experiment with
converting them to jpeg, pdf, etc for distribution.

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Michael Chesterton
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