Legacy supports some 25 picture formats: BMP, CALS, DCX, EPS, GEM IMG, HALO CUT, ICO, IFF, IOCA, JPG, LASERVIEW, MACPAINT, MSP, PCX, PNG, PSG, PCD, PICT, XPM-X, RAST, TARGA, TIFF, WMF, WPG and XBM-X. The following discussion is limited to BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG and TIFF, which are generally considered the essential graphics formats. The first factor to consider when scanning or editing a picture or document is the file format. File format is the specific way image information is produced and stored digitally. The format you select should be matched to the picture's intended use if optimal quality with minimum file size is to be achieved. This means you should not scan a picture and save it as a TIFF (.tif) or Bitmap (.bmp) if you really intend for people to see it on the Internet.įor example, Web browsers will only support JPEG (.jpg), Graphic Interchange Format (.gif.), and Portable Network Graphic (.png) images. (Yes, Legacy will convert TIFFs and Bitmaps to JPEGs when creating web pages, but then you end up with the same picture in two formats.) Here are some essential formats and their uses:īMP is the standard Windows bitmapped graphic file format. BMP can represent a monochrome line-art image, continuous gray scale, or True Color image. The BMP format should not be used for Web pages and only full color mode should be used for archiving images. RLE compress is available for Windows BMP images. The TIFF format is preferred over BMP for archiving images. Legacy 5.0 recognizes all "flavors" of BMPs. GIF is a common graphic format on the Internet for artwork having large blocks of solid color, or having a transparent background, or which is animated.
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