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- From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby)
- Subject: Re: Map gifs.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.050321.27323@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:03:21 GMT
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- In article <1jn4g2INNdtg@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> wai@unixg.ubc.ca (David Wai) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.160210.26014@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >[stuff about scanning maps/cover art]
- >
- >If I was going to do a proper job of this, I would need to put them
- >all in a ftp site somewhere. Does anyone know a good place?
- >
- >Also, do you prefer gifs or jpegs? Both are equally easy (as the
- >scanner produces tiffs and I am not going to post those! :), but I
- >would prefer to post jpegs as they are much smaller, and fit in fewer
- >posts.
- >
- >
- Definately gif. Jpeg doesn't work too well on this sort of picture, it is
- designed more for photo's. Gif, on the other hand, is much more common and
- works well on this kind of picture.
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