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From: "Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Downsampling images in pdfTeX
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:54:00 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0407281746490.18850@gaston.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.61.0407271422070.642818@montigo.bio.dfo.ca>

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, George N. White III wrote:

> For images that will be displayed only at low resolution it may be useful 
> to downsample the original image to reduce the size.  For example you 
> might have a 2 inch by 2 inch image scanned at 400 dpi.  This image would 
> have 800x800 pixels.  For screen display you might prefer to have a 
> 200x200 pixel image (or 100 dpi for 2 inches).  Downsampling refers 
> to the process of reducing an 800x800 pixel image to 200x200 pixels.
> ways to reduce image size (lossy compression, colorspace changes,
> even converting certain images to line art).

Quite soon, I'm going to convert the degrade LaTeX-package
(CTAN: graphics/degrade) to ConTeXt. It permits to down-sample JPEG images on
the fly to a given resolution.
Cheers, Peter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-28 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-24 19:41 ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses Matt Gushee
2004-07-24 20:21 ` Bill McClain
2004-07-24 20:25   ` Siep Kroonenberg
2004-07-25  9:57 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2004-07-25 10:01 ` Mats Broberg
2004-07-25 11:58   ` Adam Lindsay
2004-07-25 12:03     ` Mats Broberg
2004-07-27  6:15       ` ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks! Matt Gushee
2004-07-27  6:33         ` Brooks Moses
2004-07-27  9:27           ` Siep Kroonenberg
2004-07-27 11:53           ` George N. White III
2004-07-27 15:28             ` Downsampling images in pdfTeX Mats Broberg
2004-07-27 17:47               ` George N. White III
2004-07-27 19:36                 ` Vit Zyka
2004-07-28 15:54                 ` Peter Münster [this message]
2004-07-27  7:36         ` ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks! Tobias Hilbricht
2004-07-27 11:47         ` Bill McClain
2004-07-27 15:51         ` Mats Broberg

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