Re: Best format to post schematics?

[mzenier@xxxxxxxxxx (Mark Zenier)]

In article <1140795196.056495.285150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
William at MyBlueRoom <wrichardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I've recently setup a web site www.myblueroom.com with a handful of
>schematics on it.
>
>Currently they (you click on the thumbnail) an get a 200/300dpi .PNG
>file.
>
>I would like to use .PDF but is this a better format? or .GIF?
>
>Also I could remove the color, just post B&W to keep the size down...

PNG is just as good or better than GIF.

For the smallest file size vs. resolution, both TIFF and PDF can use
the Group 4 fax compression algorithm, but your source needs to be 1 bit
per pixel (Black and White).  (Both will also use other compressions for
other source encodings).

PDF will use a JPeG type compression for greyscale and color, which can
really look ugly and bloat to huge sizes.  Depends on your distiller's
settings.

Mark Zenier  mzenier@xxxxxxxxxx
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