From nash@chem.wisc.edu Thu Sep 19 16:28:04 1996 Received: from wisc.edu for nash@chem.wisc.edu by www.ccl.net (8.7.5/950822.1) id PAA03690; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:43:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wisc.edu; id AA19401; 5.57/37; Thu, 19 Sep 96 14:52:13 -0500 Message-Id: <9609191952.AA19401@wisc.edu> X-Sender: jrnash@students.wisc.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:45:03 -0500 To: "Brent H. Besler" From: "John R. Nash" Subject: Re: Best File Format for Submission of Pictures to Journals? Cc: CHEMISTRY@www.ccl.net At 01:15 PM 9/19/96 -0500, you wrote: >What is the best picture format to use for electronic submission to >journals among GIF, JPEG, and TIFF? I would like to preserve as much >resolution as possible when scaling the picture size. I talked to a friend who works at a chemistry journal, and she said: --- The best is an .eps file. A tiff file is a bitmapped (for a scanned) file and is more likely to cause problems w/ scaling. --- I know that JPEG is a "lossy" format, losing some data for the purpose of making smaller files. This is good for web pages, but bad for submissions. GIF doesn't lose information, but is bitmapped like TIFF, I believe. EPS (or just plain PostScript) is probably the best bet if possible. In general, any "vectorized" format will scale better than a "bitmapped" one. PICT is probably ok as well, since it usually contains vectorized data. -john -==-John R. Nash-==-nash@chem.wisc.edu-==-