Thanks Brian for the great explanation. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Brian/Support" <br...@legacyfamilytree.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Sent: 8/22/2012 8:43:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer and Clipboard >It is your choice whether to attach the image to the event, the source >or both. If you attach a picture to an event (excluding birth, Chr/Bapt, >death and burial) the picture can be included in narrative reports and >will appear in the body of the report when the event is included. >Pictures attached only to sources will only appear in the source >citation listing at the end of the report if source pictures are selected. > >Re file formats: The Tif format Geoff recommends is for saving original >scans. This is a loss-less format that includes all the detail from the >original scan. Editing and saving again as a tif makes no change to the >quality of the picture. It creates a large sized file because of this. A >jpg file is a lossy format. It creates a smaller size file but loses a >small amount of detail. Usually this loss is minimal with the first save >but editing and re-saving a jpg file many times will result in >degradation each cycle of edit and save and can lead to significant >degradation in the picture quality. > >The recommendation is that you scan and save an original in tif format. >You then edit and create a jpg copy of this file for attaching within >Legacy. This gives you a high quality original if you need to perform >further edits and a smaller file to attach to Legacy. > >Brian >Customer Support >Millennia Corporation >br...@legacyfamilytree.com >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > >We are changing the world of genealogy! >When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. >Thanks. > >On 22/08/2012 18:51, Sentz wrote: > >> >>Lots of nuances to the source writer. When I click on the event and >>then click on the source citation in the event window, the citation >>does show up on the list for alt. death and I did find it in the main >>citation list for the record by scrolling down further. The document >>image was saved on my computer as a .jpg file. I did as you suggested >>and saved the picture to the event. Should we be saving the picture to >>the event and the citation? >>Geoff mentioned in his last webinar saving some things in a .tif file >>as opposed to a .jpg. Does anyone recall the reasoning behind this? >>Something about the difference in the documents, ie. Bible records vs. >>other types of records. Why would one file type be better than the >>other? >> > > > > >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 > > > > >
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