[pdftex] JPG sizes

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Thu Mar 29 14:08:48 CEST 2001


"Dok, D. van" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When creating JPEG files to be included in PDFs for the WWW, one should
> consider size. I was wondering which is better:
> 
> 1) scaling down a 3000x2000 image to 1500x1000 an then saving as JPEG on a
> good quality setting, or
> 
> 2) saving the 3000x2000 image as JPEG on a lower quality setting to match
> option 1)'s final filesize.

Depends a bit on the images' contents, but I generally go for 1). Why
don
you just try it and see what works best?

-- 
groeten,

Taco



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