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Which lossless graphics file format is most likely to be readable by the majority of computers users?
WHAT HAPPENED THIS TIME
I recently had to email a scan of a ‘typed’ letter to someone. I figured that GIF was a good choice because I figured it is almost universally readable and it was lossless. However the recipient said they could not open it!
(I don’t know what software they were running. The recipient worked as a local government employee and they did not know what software they had got either.)
PREPARING FOR NEXT TIME
I want to be able to send graphics to minimize the chance that users saying can’t open my file. I can scan to pretty much any graphics file format, so all I need to do is make an informed choice. Ha!
Very surprisingly, I found that (lossy) JPEG at 200 dpi gave me a graphics file that was not too huge and was much more readable than I had expected. For the sake of commonality and universality and readablility, I re-sent my graphics using JPEG. But somehow JPEG doesn’t really feel right for typed documents.
Somewhere on the web I read that PNG was almost universally readable. Is this really so? Would it be a good choice for all emailed scans?
Can someone please advise.
Thank you.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS TIME
I recently had to email a scan of a ‘typed’ letter to someone. I figured that GIF was a good choice because I figured it is almost universally readable and it was lossless. However the recipient said they could not open it!
(I don’t know what software they were running. The recipient worked as a local government employee and they did not know what software they had got either.)
PREPARING FOR NEXT TIME
I want to be able to send graphics to minimize the chance that users saying can’t open my file. I can scan to pretty much any graphics file format, so all I need to do is make an informed choice. Ha!
Very surprisingly, I found that (lossy) JPEG at 200 dpi gave me a graphics file that was not too huge and was much more readable than I had expected. For the sake of commonality and universality and readablility, I re-sent my graphics using JPEG. But somehow JPEG doesn’t really feel right for typed documents.
Somewhere on the web I read that PNG was almost universally readable. Is this really so? Would it be a good choice for all emailed scans?
Can someone please advise.
Thank you.
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