Re: TIFF vs EPS
Re: TIFF vs EPS
- Subject: Re: TIFF vs EPS
- From: Bob Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:24:54 -0600
email@hidden wrote:
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They
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responded that there is no difference between EPS and TIFF and
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that TIFFs are 10 times larger than EPS files.
they must be using EPS files with JPEG compression otherwise uncompressed
TIFFs tend to be slightly smaller than uncompressed EPS files.
In theory the data held in each format will yield identical end results. In
practice, there are some differences. TIFFs are generaly easier to color
manage. For example, an applications like Quark can easily color mange
TIFFs but needs third party software to color manage EPS files.
When a TIFF is placed in a page layout program, the host program has to
create the PostScript data that's sent to the RIP. When an EPS is placed,
it already contains the PostScript data which is most often passed to the
RIP without modification. Depending on how the host program is setup, it
may alter the TIFF slightly as the PostScript code is created. It may
resample it to bring it to an efficient size; it may crop the image to only
the visible portion; or it may apply some color management. All of these
are fine as long as the person running the host program knows what they are
doing. If that is ever in question, giving someone an EPS image to place
gives them less opportunity to accidently change something that you don't
want changed. So... TIFFs are more versatile... in some rare instances EPS
may be more reliable.
Bob Smith