Re: hi-res kievan notation images

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Monk Panteleimon wrote:
> 
>> I was discovering that our internet connection is not good enough to 
>> upload whole pages of Russian chant books in 1200 dpi.
> 
> Could you recompress as bilevel, or at least as a G4 TIFF?
> 
> If you have ImageMagick, I imagine that something like
> 
>       convert -colors 16 -quality 60 my-orig.tiff compressed.png
> 
> should bring the file size down nicely, without distorting the image.

for scans (which are noisy anyway), it's best to use JPEG.

It could be useful to scan the page at 150dpi and make 1200dpi of just
small cutouts of the glyphs.

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