That¹s a good point.  The main thing is to use a format that is lossless and
easily converted.

Next question.  Does anyone know how to get a PieceInfo Dictionary (if it
exists) out of a PDFDocument or PDFPage?  Do I have to go outside of Cocoa
to get this?


On 8/2/13 12:28 PM, "Jens Alfke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> The only difference between the various bitmap image formats is the space
>>> they take up on disk, and whether they use lossy or lossless compression on
>>> disk. If you want to make sure no data is lost, a losslessly compressed or
>>> uncompressed TIFF is the safest choice.
>> 
>> Why not PNG?  PNG data chunks for image chunks use zip compression that's
>> lossless.
> 
> Also, these days I believe more apps (especially cross-platform) can read PNG
> than TIFF. For example, you can use PNG images in web pages but not TIFFs.
> 
> ‹Jens
> 


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