Re: Better Images
| From: | Justin French | Date: | Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:45:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Better Images | ||
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Why would you convert them to PDF on the fly??? If you wanted to show
really hi-res images, yes PDF would result in *slightly* smaller files, in
*some cases*, but for standard web stuff, why not consider the humble
compressed JPG? Whatever format, the file is gonna be huge if they're
trying to read a scan of a magazine page...!
As far as the PDF thing goes, I would generate your PDFs on your desktop
machine, and load them onto the site via FTP -- there is no point generating
PDFs on the on-the-fly if the content is static (ie, you'll only ever need
to generate it once).
Plus, you'll need PDFlib, not GD for that.
Justin
on 12/09/02 11:56 PM, icaam@icaam.com.ar (icaam@icaam.com.ar) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One of my customers needs to show magazine & newspapers reviews of his
> work, which are scanned in such a low res due to a file size matter, that
> the images are not quite readable. Can I convert large size images to pdf
> with PHP in order to show them faster on-the-fly? Will this be better? Is
> there another quick and easy solution?
>
> BTW, I do have access to GD lib if this should matter.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> César Aracena
> On Dial-Up
>
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