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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/19/05 16:40
Ben Bullock wrote:
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> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
> news:36_Ce.2753$S17.550262@monger.newsread.com...
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>> Ben Bullock wrote:
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>>> I'm not sure it's perfect but the images are displaying roughly OK on IE
>>> and Mozilla.
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>> <snip>
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>> My suggestion for the kanji images is to convert to a greyscale palette,
>> 8 shades of grey works very well and use GIF format. JPG works better
>> for 'photographic' images with many colors, but for flat graphic
>> produces those little wiggly artifacts that blurs the calligraphy.
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> Thanks for the tip on the images. I've got some more images to scan in,
> so I'll try using greyscale with gif output and see how it goes.
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Yes, convert to greyscale, but that's 8-bit or 256 shades of grey
(colors) typically. At 8-bit a GIF many be bigger file size than the
JPG, however the your eye cannot really detect all 256 shade of grey so
if you take the next step and reduce the palette to 16 (4-bit) or 8
(3-bit) colors you can reduce the file size of the GIF and you will not
notice it in your image. In fact for calligraphy/print it can 'sharpen'
the image.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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