Date   : Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:43:10 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: 32016 cheese wedge Service Manual

On 12/07/2012 23:15, J.G.Harston wrote:

> Ooo, useful. However, PaintShopPro4 says "This TIFF compression
> type unknown", and Windows Image Viewer also can't see anything.

TIFF?

Somebody still uses TIFF?

I stay away from it following plenty of bad experiences with TIFF when 
doing DTP work on PCs. It seems many things support TIFF, but only 
specific types of TIFF. And many things that support TIFF don't support 
*other* TIFFs.

I would have taken a look at the TIFFs (my photo editor is generally 
quite good with TIFF) but the server isn't up at half five in the 
morning. ;-)

If they are monochrome, I might suggest using a palettised or greyscale 
PNG, weighted towards green [*]. Try with and without dither, see how it 
looks and what size results.

* - In my experience, green weighting gives smaller files, even though 
the images look the same with red or blue weighting.


Either way... TIFF... ugh.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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