[Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

[Liam Wyatt]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Yes, 100MB is not big even for single paged documents. The biggest file we
> want to upload but cannot is over 600 Mb. Obviously they are a minority.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> Yes, 600Mb files will indeed be the minority of TIFF files - for a few
years yet at least :-) And, even then, TIFF files will be in the minority
relative to JPG. *but* what makes supporting the TIFF format so important
for the purposes of working with museums and galleries is that it
demonstrates that we can do very good work (and take professional care of)
their high quality images. If we can only support compressed formats then
the museums and galleries can quite legitimately ask us why would we want
high-res files. At that point it returns us to arguing over pixel-widths...
So, not only is supporting lossless file formats good for WikiSource texts
and good for image restorationists, it is also good for our future
negotiations with museums and galleries.

So, keep up the good work guys!


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