Re: [SLE] Best file format

zentara <zentara@zentara.net> writes:

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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. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se