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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: Image Format - previously RE: [TMG] I need help with the size of my photos linked to the websitecreated by Second Site
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:59:00 -0500
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Ronald Boyd wrote:
>On the other hand, if you are going to use the files in a current program
>then the prudent thing to do is use the native (to the program) format.
I agree with Richard Brogger that this is not necessarily the best
idea. You may have a program that is very good and use it for years and
have no intention of changing. But the vendor goes out of business or
discontinues the program and it is not longer supported. So you acquire a
new program. Now you have to go back to the old program and change each
old file to a more universal format so you can use them with the new
program. If you don't there will come a time when you need some image file
and it is in the old program format and you no longer have that program (it
got thrown out somewhere along the line -- after all, you hadn't used it
for years).
>There are, of course, some other issues (e.g., lossy vs lossless) but they
>are not worthy of great consideration unless (again the caveat) it is a
>particularly valuable image.
For the master (or only) copy of the image file, I would definitely think
that 'lossy vs lossless' would be a consideration. Now if the file is
created and never opened and re-saved, then I would agree that this need
not be considered. But if one opens a 'lossy' file and re-saves it back to
the same file, data will be lost. Of course, one can simply re-scan the
original or re-acquire the image file although this may not be an option.
Lee Hoffman/KY
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