- From: Chris Kaminski <chris@setmajer.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:17:51 +0100
> Firstly, it's a very unlikely use case. Actually, I can't > even think of > *any* case where you'd want to upload three image files in > three different and specific formats. (Even if they were the > same picture, why not just upload the single most faithful > format and get the server to produce the others? That'd be > quicker, more accessible, and produce more reliable results > than making users do their own conversions.) Unless the user is a web dev/designer at an agency and the photo in question is used in both a web and print campaigns. At my current job, we often have 3 versions of the same image: hi-res, uncompressed TIF, low-res compressed GIF/JPEG, print-ready PDF and occasionally a PDF with compression used to present online comps. As the designers *never* compress the images themselves, and the devs (almost) never prepare print versions, having all three in a web-based extranet might make sense, and generating them 'automagically' on the server just isn't an option (resizing, sharpening, color-correcting and compressing large, important images is not something a computer can do even half so well as a human being). I'll grant it isn't a common case, but I do see it from time to time, and I've wasted enough time chasing down design/ad/media agency employees to get imagery in a usable format that I can absolutely see wanting to require specific formats for specific uses (PDF for print, TIF or PSD for source file, etc.). ck
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