Re: [gutvol-d] Initial thoughts on a PG/DP scan repository

On 7/15/05, Jon Niehof <jon_niehof@yahoo.com> wrote:

And finally, why encourage 600dpi scans and then muck 'em up with lossy compression?

DJVU is not necessarily lossy compression. In lossless mode, it still compress B&W scans better than TIFF or PNG. I don't think we're getting 600 dpi scans from most DP scanners anytime soon. It takes at least twice as long for me to scan at 600 dpi as it does at 300 dpi, and I'm more worried about scanning the long list of books I've checked out than producing very high resolution scans.