24 Jan
2022
24 Jan
'22
4:28 p.m.
On Jan 24, 2022, at 5:57 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
That's true generally. Anything other than actual photographs (continuous tone
images) should NOT be run through JPEG because JPEG is not intended for, and unfit for,
anything else. Printouts, line drawings, and anything else with crisp edges between dark
and light will be messed up by JPEG. PNG and TIFF are examples of appropriate compression
schemes.
paul
...
Document source is also a problem.
You would want to keep scan it at the best data format,
not something in a lossey format.