Re: TIF or GIF?

[Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>]

In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com ("Brierley, Sean") writes:
>Hallo:
>
>It sounds like you are resizing or otherwise editing your GIFs. I have as
>much luck with GIFs as TIFFs and BMPs, which is to say, pretty good (GIGO
>notwithstanding).
>

Nope - no editing or resizing involved. They're just 
screenshots that look really crummy when printed.

-- Janice

>| -----Original Message-----
>| From:	Janice Gelb [SMTP:janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com]
>| 
>| 
>| We've had very bad results using GIFs for print output. 
>| The images look like they were taken underwater. We use 
>| TIFs in our single-source documents and DynaWeb automatically 
>| converts them to GIFs for web display.
>


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