How one stores files is beside the point. However, when speaking of what file size is required for a 13 x 19 print, common sense dictates that one would cite the actual, uncompressed size of the file. The compressed size is totally irrelevant. Paul On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Bob Shell wrote:
> > On Oct 19, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> <ROTFLMAO> x 2 >> >> That's a pretty broad and baseless assumption, Bob. And as Paul >> pointed >> out, once he understood what you meant, the file is actually a lot >> larger >> than you made it out to be. > > The file size is how much space it takes up on my storage disk. In > the case I referenced, 15.6 MB is the actual file size. I also have > a bunch of images stored as Genuine Fractals files, and the file size > is how much space the file takes up, not whatever arbitrary size I > decide to open it as. > > Why on earth would anyone store uncompressed TIFF files? LZW > compression is lossless, so you're just wasting disk space if you > don't use it. > > It took me a while to think of this as the missing point in our > communication, since it seems just plain silly to store TIFF files > any other way. > > Bob > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
