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[Theo]

Hi Peter,

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Snow <psnow at magma.ca>

> Hi Guys,
>
> Thanks for all the responses! Consensus of opinion indicates it is
> between JPG, GIF and PDF.
> Unfortunately I don't have Acrobat so PDF is out (sorry Proteus).

<flame suit on>
Great PDF sucks anyway, large files, unstable reader program, no hyper text
and ya need a 21" or bigger monitor to view a whole page.
<flame suit off>
Please keep it HTML, if you don't go freaky the pages printout very well.

> I did a quick test of file sizes between GIF and JPG and a file that is
> 125Kb in JPG turns out to be 486Kb in GIF.

That may depend, make sure that you set the number of collors in the GIF as
low as possible.
For 2 or 4 collor stuff 125Kb JPG may turn out 50Kb GIF!
General rule seems to be: need more than 16 collors, go JPG.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>

Cheers, Theo