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2000.11.26 22:39 "Re: PhotoShop 6.0 and TIFF [was: TIFF Standards?]", by Chris Hanson
At 5:21 PM -0500 11/20/00, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but are there more options for saving EPS files? That is,
> actually getting compression filtered data streams for the image operator
> (instead of just a hex encoded uncompressed stream, thereby *bloating* the EPS
> file).
Don't use EPS for raster image data, use TIFF.
TIFF doesn't require tools which want to get at image data to solve
the Halting Problem or implement a complete PostScript interpreter in
order to work in the general case.
Using EPS for raster image data is an abomination before all that's holy.
-- Chris
-- who in a past life had to write code to
deal with a lot of raster EPS files
--
Christopher M. Hanson <cmh@bDistributed.com>
President & CEO, bDistributed.com, Inc.
bDistributed.com: Making business distributed.
+1-847-372-3955, cmh@mac.com (Personal)
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