Message-Id: <199810092137.OAA22604@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:32:50 -0400 From: Peter Nelson <mailto:pnelson@MTHOLYOKE.EDU> Subject: Re: tiff parsing problem To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
I am still working on the TIFF problem, and thank those who have contributed suggestions and comments (as contradictory as they may be). For now I want to follow up on something David Adams wrote:<snip>
> This leads me on to a query regarding LZW.
>
> Is this a useful file format ?
> the amount of compression is little ca10%
> There isnt a great deal of saving cost wise.
> (we save 5,000 uncompressed tiff files a year, using lzw we would
> save $30 on CD costs, whoppee)
>
> Is it going to prove a problem in the distant
> future as far as readablity goes ? 50+ years from now.
>
> We are sticking to raw tiff format.
LZW works a lot better for me. I am not getting 10% file compression with LZW, as you are. It's between 87-93%! (I.e., I have an uncompressed TIFF of 824 KB; with LZW it is 101KB. Another uncompresed file is 888 KB, while with LZW it is only 63 KB.) LZW would seem to me to be a significant space-saver, regardless of plummeting storage costs. How can we be so far off in our compression savings?
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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, David Adams wrote:
> This leads me on to a query regarding LZW.
>
> Is this a useful file format ?
> the amount of compression is little ca10%
> There isnt a great deal of saving cost wise.
> (we save 5,000 uncompressed tiff files a year, using lzw we would
> save $30 on CD costs, whoppee)
>
> Is it going to prove a problem in the distant
> future as far as readablity goes ? 50+ years from now.
>
> We are sticking to raw tiff format.
>
>
>
>
> David Adams
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