Re: TIF or JPEG

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On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 07:18:11 -0500
"Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@cape.com> wrote:

> Sombody help me understand.
> 
> After you've gone to the trouble to scan, spot, color correct and 
> othewise adjust a file, why in heaven's name would you consider 
> saving your master copy of it in a lossy format?
> 
> And what sort of printer doesn't understand that jpeg is a consumer 
> format, not a professional one?

How do you define "professional", exactly? I mean, is a discrete cosine
transform only "consumer-grade" mathematics, or something?

Do you understand exactly what "lossy compression" means?

Brian Chandler
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