Scj9000@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/13/99 9:07:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, Pauls0627@xxxxxxx
> writes:
> << Something you scanned 2 years ago and put on a ZIP
> drive can be copied today to a DVD-RAM drive without the image losing any
> quality. >>
>
> Paul,
> The copying of the files from one medium to another would never worry me...but
> the original postee (Richard) indicated that each time opened, a measure of
> the image was lost. THAT got my attention! OMer seems to have a handle on
> this, but I had never read such (as I am not big into compression standards
> at all..never trusted to play with Stacker in the old days either, but do
> compress my pics for Ebay.....how's that for professional content LOL)
> It simply never ocurred to me that opening and closing a compressed file might
> deteriorate the quality of the image over time! Facinating! Back to printing
> off everything?? Let' face it, be it film, slide, print, or file, image
> immortality is debatable!
> Susan
>
Susan;
Don't worry, it's not opening and closing it's opening and SAVING.
Usually, you save only once, right?
George
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