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

["Robert Brand" <rb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since this affects us all but is not about 3D I will comment on-line 
once and off-line if anyone wants a dialogue. As the comments so far 
have indicated, there is no simple answer. Ray Moxom and I have 
worked with this problem for some time for our club bulletin - "3D-
Window".

Tom Deering suggests placing the entire newsletter in parts on the 
web. As someone who manages our club site, I don't have the time to 
do this for a photo rich bulletin that is published every 2 months. 
The simple one shot download seems acceptable to most as well as the 
web site manager.

There is greater issue here that affects download times even more 
than the heavy compression option. Files attached to emails are 
generally sent in MIME format. These take about twice the 
transmission time of a file downloaded from a web site. Email 
software also tends to pull in the email at the most unwanted time - 
when you first log onto the Internet. 

Try doing what Ray Moxom just did for his pdf compression 
demostration. Place a both a high resolution and low resolution 
version of your Newsletter in pdf format on your web site somewhere 
and send only the links in an email to your members. This lets the 
user decide what size they want and when to download - maybe during a 
10 minute break - and it will download in half the time of an email 
version.

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Robert Brand