On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 04:48:22PM +0100, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 03:45:07PM +0000, Mr. B. mentioned:
> > hi all,
> > just a quick question.
> > what advantages disadvantages, do a)tiff, b) jpg imag formats have over each other?
>> JPG is very good compression, and is lossy. Good for "real world"
> photographs. TIFF's are lossless, and the compression isn't as good for
> photos, but better at things like "computer" images which have lines,
> squares etc. Don't know any reason why you would use them over a PNG
> format though.
hmm, ok.
i should have prefaced the question with information on where they are going to be used.
they will be used on mainly Win9* platform, in a law firm, for their
intranet. So I would guess that file size wouldn't be too much of a problem.
they would be used within HTML files.
hmm, so tiff *maybe* the way to go?
thanks
ber.
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