[time-nuts] Three HP oldies

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Mon Mar 12 18:47:39 UTC 2012


Do I know !! I've only been able to convince one Costco that the
equipment they have can take
tiff's and a few other formats. The other is to get them not to crop.
When critical there are other
shops but the price per print is much more. I guess consumer vs
commercial customer
and volume.


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:13 AM, David J Taylor
<david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Just a note about jpg files, they are intentionally
>> fuzzed as the Japanese Photo Experts Group
>> concept is in the interest of visual art.
>
>
> s/Japanese/Joint/
>
>
>> So if you
>> make a jpg of a schematic much of it will not be
>> readable. Try Graphics Interchange Format gif
>> to preserve computer generated details like lines
>> and text. Or if it is all text, the postscript file system
>> is very good, it allows control of the entire page
>> formatting in preservation of accurate alignments.
>
> []
>>
>> Greg
>
>
> Actually, there is a lossless version of JPEG but it is little used.
>
> PNG is a much better choice for graphics than GIF as it allows more than 256
> colours.  PNG has lossless compression.
>
> Cheers,
> David
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