Manual scanning: TIFF-to-PDF software with greyscale support?

On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote: :-) <off-topic rant> I find it incredibly irritating when people use JPEG for things that it's not suited for. It irritates me because it points to the bigger problem of people running full steam ahead and using technologies that they know NOTHING about, and they're just fine with that. Then they try to do things like present schematic diagrams (Yes, schematics! Even supposedly "technical" people do this!) in JPEG, and wonder why they get lots of unsightly artifacts around lines and sharp color transitions. Recently, I heard someone complaining about those artifacts after exporting an AutoCAD drawing to JPEG. He said "oh, they always do that, I think my computer has a virus or something." Moron. I wanted to hit him in the head with a shovel. So, folks: JPEG is for continuous-tone images, like natural scenes and photographs. It DOES NOT WORK even remotely well for "artificial" images. Use PNG or GIF for those. You'll get better compression ratios and MUCH better image quality. This isn't just an anal-retentive academic theoretical difference...we're talking about images that look good versus images that look like crap. </off-topic rant> -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL