I agree, I have use compressed tiff a lot for scanning articles,papers ,books
etc
It works well in that application. I seem to remember it uses Run length
encoding, so works well
with B/W high contrast images like print, where long stetches are at same
level.
Tim Hughes
--- "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I never use TIFF compression for photo image due to the same reason but
> compression works very well for 1bit file (text) and simple graphic.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > However, anybody using TIFF compression with any apps I've used, is just
> > wasting their time. In VueScan and PS, they write slower that the
> > proverbial molasses. And in VueScan, they can actually be larger than
> > "uncompressed". Completely useless, in my limited experience.
> >
> > Theory and practice don't always agree.
> >
> > Moose
>
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