Ulrich Deiters <u...@xenon.pc.uni-koeln.de> writes: > The TIFF standard supports multiple images in one file, but > a) not every TIFF reader can handle this. First make sure that your > image viewer (or that of the mail recipient) can handle multi-image > TIFF. > b) the typical TIFF compression schemes (Packbits, LZW) are good for > lineart only. For colour photos you need TIFF JPEG, but again, this > cannot be handled by all viewers. > > PDF can handle multi-page documents with images, but the compression > of colour graphics is not always good. See one of the previous discussion > threads of this forum on how to produce PDFs.
Several TIFF types (including G4 and JPEG) can be "repackaged" as PDF, since PDF supports the same compression schemes; these PDFs are only marginally larger than the original multipage TIFFs, and contain the same image data. PDFlib <http://pdflib.com/> can do this (for example); I'm using a (slightly modified) version of the pdfimage sample application from PDFlib. -- Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <m...@dynalabs.de> Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt>
