Re: Compression
Re: Compression
- Subject: Re: Compression
- From: Lee Manevitch <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 22:53:23 -0400
on 8/5/01 9:41 PM, SKID Photography at email@hidden wrote:
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We recently needed to send a very large file to a client va e-mail.
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There was a problem with their end, not accepting a 50 MG file on their
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server. The art director suggested, for the future, trying to compress
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via Stuffit', as a way to not lose any quality and get the images sent.
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So...does anyone on the list have working knowledge of how successful
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the Stuffit program is in both compression amount and end quality?
As I understand it, Stuffit uses LZW compression. Having said that, it would
make no difference whether you sent the customer a LZW compressed TIFF or an
uncompressed TIFF compressed with Stuffit. Furthermore, you may find that
trying to compress the already-compressed file will result in a larger file
size due to Stuffit's overhead - I haven't tried to see.
It really doesn't matter. We had a customer who insisted on stuffing JPEG
images before sending them to us. Once a file is compressed, it's
compressed. No sense wasting time compressing it again.
And shame on you for sending a 50MB email! :-)
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Lee Manevitch
Findlay, Ohio PGP Public Key
email@hidden Available upon request
http://home.woh.rr.com/manevitch
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