31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
8:35 a.m.
From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 4:14 PM
Randy wrote:
I too have seen people try and use JPEG's for document archiving, I also
find them hard to read (I don't do it).
For now and the immediate future I will continue with 300 DPI TIFF's in
PDF's.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
My documents are not perfect but I believe they
are the best I can
provide
given the variables of convenience and cost.
As I stated in another post, my comments are only intended to influence
ongoing archival efforts, and are not in any way intended to criticize
the efforts of people who are scanning documents and making them
available.
I have found several of the documents on your web site to be very
helpful. Thanks for providing them!
Even though I don't like lossy compression applied to text and line art,
and try to discourage it, a lossy-compression DjVu file of a document
is MUCH more useful than not having the document at all.
I might try to draw the line at JPEGs of text and line art though. They
literally hurt my eyes (by causing eye strain) due to the bluriness
of the edges. Still, if it's a document I really need I suppose I'd
rather be able to get the JPEG than nothing at all.
These questions face every archivist, if I
decided to archive "perfect
documents" how many could I archive?
None at all. Anyone that thinks otherwise is a fool.
Eric