[scribus] image formats (jpg or tiff)?

[Richard Foley]

Ok, so if I need to post-manipulate the image for a particular reason, it might
be worth saving it as a TIFF. Otherwise it seems there's no especial benefit in
the standard case, and a risk to quality unless I'm particularly careful.

Many thanks for the advice.

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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 04:48:26PM -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote:
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> On 06/10/2012 04:20 PM, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > On 6/10/12 10:15 PM, Richard Foley wrote:
> >> When creating a PDF with Scribus, is there any particular
> >> advantage to converting JPG photographs to TIFF format, before
> >> generating a PDF?
> >> 
> >> I ask because this was recommended to me as the right way to
> >> proceed to generate a PDF for printing via LSI for instance, but
> >> it is unclear to me as to why this would be in any way
> >> beneficial. It seems to me likely merely to increase the file
> >> sizes required, but am happy to be corrected.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for any clarification.
> >> 
> > 
> > If the images are already jpgs, then any conversion should be
> > avoided. Yes, its likely you just get larger images, but possibly
> > will lose some data. JPG is fully supported by PDF so LSI should
> > not have any issues with them. Of course, converting to JPG blindly
> > may mean you lose quality and depending on the type of file
> > (photo/flat drawing etc) may not gain you much space.
> > 
> and the thing to add that if you DO process the image externally and
> will be saving it afterward, this is where a TIFF might be useful
> since it's lossless.
> 
> Greg
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