Re: PDF or JPEG for map scanning?

"Voytek Eymont" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.chat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, March 17, 2008 11:06 am, Michael Lake wrote:
> Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
>> I only scan A4 size docs, and, have no experience with larger sizes,
>> but, I still think TIFF is the format to look at, I use TIFF-F for multi
>> page docs
>
> Thanks Voytek and all. I have dropped in the first batch of 100 maps
> today to the scanning bureau. They would have by default used PDF but when
> I asked if they could
> do tiff they can. I mentioned that the users will be wishing to edit the
> images and they said that generally the Windows users would need the CS
> range of Adobe suite to edit them, tiff would be better then for them.
>
> From the tiff I'll make jpg and pdf using ImageMagick.

that's what I'd attempt

in my past experience, TIFF also was the sharpest for reproduction,
and, AFAIK, TIFF is the choice for doc imaging systems

btw, I don't think Adobe can handle multi page TIFFs (TIFF-F), but, is
fine for tiff as an image

-- 
Voytek

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