Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows

[Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.]

Corel PhotoPaint is the same as PSP - it will open Vuescan 24-bit compressed
but not 48-bit compressed.

Maris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Geraghty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Scanning and memory limits in Windows


| "Raphael Bustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Sorry, this doesn't sound right.  For a given image,
| > a given file format, and compression method, the
| > file size should be deterministic.
|
| You're wrong, Rafe. :)  I agree with what you're saying in principle but
| what was said is true - Vuescan's LZW TIFFs are compressed better than
those
| from PS or PSP.  I forget what Ed said he fiddled with in the LZW
| compression in Vuescan, but it uses a setting which is much more efficient
| than that which Photoshop or PSP use.  PS opens files from Vuescan which
are
| compressed, PSP won't open 48bit compressed TIFFs from Vuescan but I think
| it will open 24bit compressed ones.
|
| As to what Ed did exactly you'd need to ask him. :)
|
| Rob
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