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RE: [Digital BW] off topic Re: lossless archiving

2001-08-26 by Tim Atherton

>
> I think it was Austin that pointed out here, or someplace else, that
> compressed TIFF often ends up with a *larger* image than
> uncompressed TIFF. I've proved this to myself on numerous
> occasions. PNG seems to be gaining popularity, but I've never
> checked its compression.

Really? of about 20,000 images saved as tiff so far, I can't say I've ever
noticed this.

I'll look when I do the next 30,000 soon, but my experience so far is
compressed tiff work fine and actually does compress - so far.



Tim A

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