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Offhand, I'd be concerned about colour reproduction. I recently copied TIF,
JPG and GIF versions of a two-colour graphic into a single document for
exactly the kind of comparison you're talking about, and I noted some
significant differences in colour between the TIF sources and the other two
file formats.
Cheers ... Kim mailto:kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim McCallan [mailto:jmccallan -at- vermeermfg -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:16 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: TIF or GIF?
>
>
> I've been looking at the graphics we use in FrameMaker 5.6
> for use in PDF,
> HTML, and paper manuals. I've seen some improvements in
> quality when using
> GIF instead of TIF, and the end file size of the PDF is
> smaller as well.
> Are there any draw-backs to using GIF's in manuals for hard print? We
> import the graphics by reference currently, but are looking
> at making our
> FrameMaker files more portable by copying the graphics into
> Frame instead of
> importing by reference. We generally print the paper copies
> at 600 dpi. Any
> thoughts?
>
>
>
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