If I remember correctly, very large image files will not display in some of the reports. Another aspect is the time it takes to load a large file. A large image will slow down the Legacy program significantly when switching from screen to screen where images are concerned. I recommend keeping them relatively small for use in Legacy. Try scanning a photo that will be marked as the “preferred” picture and see how long it takes to navigate to that person in the family view.
bgj From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:57 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What format for documents? Julia, As others have said it has no effect on the size of your Legacy file, but do note the comments made particularly regarding web pages and the size of the image (in bytes). You may have no intention of creating a website at the moment, but you do not know about the future, and you may feel it is better to use JPG now instead of having to convert the lot at sometime in the future. JPGs are also fine for reports, btw.. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: julia l <mailto:aga...@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] What format for documents? Thank you to all who commented on this topic. Thankfully, I'm not too far into my scanning marathon - I will scan to a hi-res .tif for a master file and make a lower res jpg copy for my Legacy media directory. Does anyone know if I were to attach the hi res .tif, does this bloat the family file? _____ From: whbosw...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] What format for documents? Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:19:21 -0400 Years ago I scanned all documents to PDF files, but then converted them to JPG’s and noticed the resolution wasn’t as good as I expected even though I scanned at a higher resolution. For my own scans, I scan at a very high resolution for documents and photos and save as a TIF file.. JPG’s, as was mentioned, tend to lose resolution because they’re compressed. I only use JPG’s for Legacy after converting TIFs to a lower resolution and size. If I ever need to see the document close up I can still go back to the TIF file. Most of my old genealogy documents of no historical value were destroyed after scanning at a high resolution. I don’t recommend scanning to PDFs directly if you are planning to attach them to Legacy since you’ll still need the viewer. The only time I use PDFs is for large documents where I don’t want hundreds of pages converted to single JPGs. Those can be saved outside Legacy and just save the individual pages to single JPGs for sources. PDF files can be large too depending on the resolution used to scan the documents. Bill Boswell From: julia l [mailto:aga...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:51 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] What format for documents? I am starting to go through all my paper files and scan my documents/certificates that I've used as sources for my individuals. I've been saving as pdf files and attaching as documents, but I noticed that Geoff uses the .tif format. What format do you use and why do you use that format? [I chose pdf because it creates a much small file than a .tif or .jpg] Thanks! Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
