scottsdad Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 I'm writing a journal article and the journal requirements are: "TIFF (.tif) is the recommended file format for line art, greyscale and colour halftone images. TIFF files should be compressed once created, ensuring file sizes are kept to a minimum to aid easy file transfer. When saving as TIFF format, please ensure that LZW compression is applied." Now, I can make .tif files and I can compress with ZIP - but does anyone know how to compress with LZW? Cheers -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 Never heard of it. I hope this is for a Q1 journal btw None of your Q2 shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted November 1, 2023 Author Share Posted November 1, 2023 17 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Never heard of it. I hope this is for a Q1 journal btw None of your Q2 shite. It's so niche it barely has an impact factor -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 4 minutes ago, scottsdad said: It's so niche it barely has an impact factor Ah the best kind! A Q of their own. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted November 1, 2023 Author Share Posted November 1, 2023 Got the answer - photoshop, apparently. Installing it now. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 20 hours ago, scottsdad said: Got the answer - photoshop, apparently. Installing it now. There'll be loads of freeware programs that would do the same too. LZW compression is fucking ancient and free to use. Just in case anyone's wondering about compressing JPEGs, don't use Photoshop as it produces larger file sizes than necessary, and the image quality is poor (unlike LZW, JPEG compression doesn't produce an exact visual copy of the original, and looks worse depending on how aggressive the compression settings are). There are freeware programs such as Interactive JPEG Optimiser that will produce a better-looking image at smaller sizes (there are likely newer, sexier programs by now, as IJO is pretty old too, but still does a better job than Photoshop). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted November 2, 2023 Author Share Posted November 2, 2023 3 minutes ago, BFTD said: There'll be loads of freeware programs that would do the same too. LZW compression is fucking ancient and free to use. Just in case anyone's wondering about compressing JPEGs, don't use Photoshop as it produces larger file sizes than necessary, and the image quality is poor (unlike LZW, JPEG compression doesn't produce an exact visual copy of the original, and looks worse depending on how aggressive the compression settings are). There are freeware programs such as Interactive JPEG Optimiser that will produce a better-looking image at smaller sizes (there are likely newer, sexier programs by now, as IJO is pretty old too, but still does a better job than Photoshop). Some journals made their guidelines in the 80s and haven't updated them! I remember one a few years ago requiring me to post them a copy of the paper as well as emailing it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 5 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Some journals made their guidelines in the 80s and haven't updated them! I remember one a few years ago requiring me to post them a copy of the paper as well as emailing it. Print it out, take a photo of the printout, scan the printout, upload to the web, and they can download from there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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