On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 01:04:16PM -0700, pixel fairy wrote:
> PNM is simply the easiest format
> to read/write and probably the most portable since
> images can be stored in plain text.
.. and by far the fastest, though TIFF with no compression will be quite
fast too. If you have trouble with the scanner hesitating during a scan,
switching to PNM can reduce the machine load enough to improve things.
BTW Most TIFF output suffers the same IP problem as GIF, ie it uses
the patented LZW compression method. Future versions of Gimp and XSane
may not be able to write such TIFFs, though they will still read them.
Nick. (still busy)
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