Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net writes:
....
What of scores from ChoralWiki? That is public domain, I guess
we can
borrow at will? Or should we restrict ourselves to the same
level of
caution? Note that some of the stuff on ChoralWiki is actually copyright, it's externally hosted, so I would have to watch that
of
course. Most of them are in PDF format.
I've always felt that, unless the materials are being actively developed/modified/improved (and it cannot be done better on Wikipedia), we should always seek to mirror as much Free content as possible - even if the metadata is degraded - simply because it adds redundancy and reliability to the Free culture community as a whole (not to mention the direct utility for WMF projects). If you have the spare time, I'd encourage to copy over what you can.
Finally, does anyone have a good, cheap or free converter from
jpeg /
tiff to a more efficient format?
Thanks,
Guy (JzG)
I generally use [[ImageMagick]] for such tasks - the command line "convert" program is particularly useful and scriptable for such tasks (ie, $ convert foobar.jpg foobar.png), and then use [[OptiPNG]] to compress the PNGs. They're both in the Debian repositories, so are easily gotten, free, and easy to use. Works for me, anyway.