[at-l] Scanning Question

[jbkramer@afn.org (Bryan Kramer)]

The GIF legal battles are over from what I've heard. The owner
supposedly gave up.

Bryan

> 
> 
> Following up on myself, since I just read some of the preceding 
> contributions:  Maybe JPG isn't the best for both images.. 
> but one shouldn't use GIF unless has worked out an agreement 
> with the business entity owning the code.  Lots of folks do 
> anyway.. and some of them get sued.
> 
> -amy
> 
> Amy wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > L. Parker wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >> Second, you need two images of each map, one at 72 dpi, 
> 256 colors, 
> >> optimized for the web probably saved in GIF format. You 
> should have 
> >> the scanning service do this for you while they are doing 
> the rest. 
> >> The second image should be at 300 dpi, 24 bit color and 
> compressed as 
> >> a JPG image at whatever ratio the scanning service 
> recommends. Only 
> >> they will be able to tell you because they have the 
> original image in 
> >> front of them.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I don't want to muddy the waters further, but due to legal issues 
> > surrounding the GIF format, it's best to use something else.  JPG 
> > should be fine for both images.
> > 
> 
> 
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