Re: VMs: Full-Size Jpg's

[Eric <mynumberis2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

btw, the "MrSID Decode" will convert to jpg. it will
also take in coordinates and width/height to extract a
subsection of the sid as a tiff if you want to
preserve all the detail for a small section. 


--- Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> It is nice to have a full set of high resolution
> pictures but most of 
> the disk space required is for broad expanses of
> green paint and blank 
> vellum: nothing that cannot be appreciated on an 8X
> jpg. All the parts 
> of pages under discussion could be on one website by
> way of ready 
> reference for people who are on the long end of
> their "last" computer. 
> The site could be restricted if the host has
> misgivings about displaying 
> images to the public. It would allow for examination
> of a few SID's at a 
> time on a smaller disk, downloads of manageable
> sizes, and for a full 
> set of 8X jpg's on that disk that are useful in
> themselves.
> 
> I do not think there is any special reason to keep
> an image in tiff 
> format if there is no future alteration to be made
> and disk space is 
> limited. About converting to jpg, is there any
> advantage to having a jpg 
> the size of a sid rather than the sid, itself?
> 
> Knox
> 
> 
> Dennis wrote:
> > Knox Mix wrote:
> > 
> >>I have seen 4X & 8X jpg's at the Beinecke site, no
> other jpg's.
> >>Are you sure others were ever available?
> > 
> > 
> > 	Yes.  I got a few from Seth's mirror site when it
> was
> > up; I also believe Gabriel mentioned these as
> well. 
> > They are much larger (~4Mbyte, about the size of
> the
> > sid's.  They have more detail than the 8X do. 
> I'll try
> > what Eric says, but my system is rather limited; I
> > wouldn't be able to handle 60M tiff's.  
> > 
> > Dennis
> >
>
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