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

[Mario Klebsch <mario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi!

Am 18.12.2004 um 15:26 schrieb Kim Lux:

> 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.

The image data delivered by CAD programs is not the kind of input data 
JPEG was designed to handle. In fact, compressing linework is one of 
the hardest jobs for JPEG. The resulting file size is big and the 
quality is bad.

> 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.

CAD images composed of linework are the ideal job for RLE compression. 
If bmp files can use RLE compresseion, bmp would be a good candidate. 
BTW, everybody can open GIF files.

73, Mario
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