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Subject:Re: Do I want it? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 9 May 2005 14:17:01 -0700
On an absolute basis it's not. But on a practical, day-to-day basis,
"as large as possible" will mean the native resolution of whatever
was used to produce the image. If your company is making drum
scans of high-resolution images from film rather than collecting the
output of 3-5 megapixel digital cameras or the screen caps from
a 1600x1200 displays, there's a pretty good chance it has a real
need to preserve them for future use. You may not do all your
work in the original, high-res image, but having and not using it
is almost always better than needing and not having it. Unless,
of course, you're running a dept like the one you described in the
beginning of your message that collects huge repositories of images
without keeping track them. And being asked for publication-suitable
versions of technical illustrations is not rare in any of the industries
I've worked in - it's something that has happened to me on a regular
basis at just about every company I've worked in for the past 10
years. It might be a more common occurrence for more tech pubs,
groups, if they produced information of sufficient quality and could
manage and make it readily available.
I realize that few on this list will be familiar with images of this
magnitude--but the original formulation was "as much resolution as
possible"...and even 2,000 dpi is not as "large as possible."
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