- To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Black/white drawing formats
- From: Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 16:53:41 +1100
- User-agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14
<quote who="Alan L Tyree">
> The question is, what format should use I save the scanned grayscale
> drawings to get the best output?
Well you don't want a lossy compression format, which basically means "don't
use JPEG". Almost anything else would be fine, but the most common format
for stuff like this, at least in the graphic design and publishing worlds,
would be TIFF.
- Jeff
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