Re: "Doing" datasheets

From: Spehro Pefhany (speffSNIP_at_interlogDOTyou.knowwhat)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:52:14 -0500

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:25:22 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:35:56 +1100, "Roger Lascelles"
><invalidl@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>2. Buy MS Word. Last time I looked, Open Office was clumsy and
>>complicated, ran slow and got confused. Word is simple, overpriced and just
>>works. The beauty of Word is that you can copy and paste just about
>>anything into a Word document : bitmaps, EMF (Windows own zoomable graphics
>>format), jpg, stuff out of your web browser, printscreen, html.
>
>
>I am the proud owner of a simple tiff file that crashes Word 2003
>whenever I import it.
>
>John

I remember looking at the tiff format definition once, IIRC it's a
dog's breakfast, more like a container file format. Ah, here's a file
that describes it:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf
 
The real graphics guys like it (the TIFFs that Photoshop emits)
because it's lossless and always seems to work (probably because
everyone uses or is compatible with Photoshop rather than anything to
do with TIFF). My digital SLR has a RAW format that is MUCH more
compact and is still lossless. Not much of a difference on a big HDD
but the CF card I have is not very large (only half a gig) so it would
fill up quickly if the images were not fairly compact.

<cool- Globalflyer is just touching down> Quite a trip.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany 

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