Re: gEDA-user: Titleblocks: unlocking and filling in.

[Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess it depends on your usage.  We send CAD files created by qcad as
jpegs all the time and I've yet to have anyone complain.  Obviously they
don't have all the detail that other formats might provide, but they
provide enough to let the intended audience see what they need to see. 

bmps ?  They would be huge and some of the people I communicate with
aren't skilled enough with computers to be able to unzip a file without
help.  You read that right. 

jpegs don't scale well and they will lose some definition.  I still want
them. 

Thanks. 




On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 02:30 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:17:43 -0700, Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It would also be very nice if we could save in .jpeg.  My Windows
> > friends don't know what to do with a png file.
> 
> IM(NS)HO, it would be better to convert the PNG to a .bmp file in that
> case. Recent versions of Windows allow rudimentary compression in
> .bmps (RLE, I think), so it's not as bad a proposition as it used to
> be. Or, you can always zip the .bmp file.
> 
> Search the archives to find out what is wrong with saving schematics
> as a .jpeg. It's probably better that gschem doesn't save to jpegs, as
> people would then probably complain that the output doesn't scale
> well, or if the quality is good, then the files are huge, etc.
> 
-- 
Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.