[WEB4LIB] Re: esolution for scanning images for the web

Chris Lott chrisl at muskox.alaska.edu
Tue Aug 17 18:51:12 EDT 1999


> In my opinion, scanning for (present) screen
> resolution is short-sighted. So, if short-sighted is ok (in instances
> where the image will be worthless soon anyway), then scan for the screen.
> Otherwise, scan for posterity.

You must live in a better world than I... I do a lot of work in which
creating and storing high-res scans is a waste of time, space and effort.

But agreed: if the poster was actually asking a different question than the
one she really asked, then the advice given would be garbage.

c
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