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[photo-3d] Re: Question for newsletter editors - pdf picture quality


  • From: Abram Klooswyk <abram.klooswyk@xxxxxx>
  • Subject: [photo-3d] Re: Question for newsletter editors - pdf picture quality
  • Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:47:12 +0100

I agree with Tom Deering on preferring HTML over PDF.
 
Tom Deering wrote 25 Sep 2000:
>The mistake you have made is the vain assumption that every 
>subscriber will *want* to wait around for every single image 
>to download.  By packaging text and photos into a PDF, that is 
>what you force them to do.
>
>A better medium for distributing your newsletter, in my 
>professional opinion, would be a website with thumbnail 
>pictures. This way, the basic newsletter would download 
>quickly for all.  
>Then each of your subscribers could choose for themselves 
>which images warrant an extended download.  There are a 
>number of other technical advantages that I will not bore 
>this list with.

I wouldn't be bored, please elaborate on this Tom, since
the way in which digital stereo images are presented 
concerns us all.

Abram Klooswyk