It looks good, but what I am doing is storing the diagrams, etc. on a web site for download. I use Oracle Small Business on line accounting software, and it allows you to store docs and images for download. This particular use is for wiring diagrams for service being done in the field on equipment. A technician can access the file through any customers PC that has internet access, so reams of diagrams don't have to be carried in the service truck. Unfortunately, the more disk space used for this, the more it costs me. So what I need is the format that preserves readability with the smallest amount of space used that can be opened by W$ and Linux. Harry G On Sat December 28 2002 9:53 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
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writes: I need to scan some small wiring diagrams, drawings, etc. but the file size is important.
Which tends to be smaller, tiff, bmp, etc?
The convert them to .jpg at a about 70% quality setting in Gimp. Your jpgs should look good and be about 40k.
JPEG is good for photographs but I wouldn't use it for line drawings.
See DjVu (http://www.djvuzone.org/). For scanned documents, the DjVu format gives excellent quality and size. I don't understand why so few people use it.
SuSE 8.1 contains djvulibre-3.5.8-22.rpm.