Howard wrote:

I have a copy of a shareware program called Graphic Workshop for Windows
which is downloadable and works very well for this purpose.   It will
convert to almost any format, and you can scale and crop as well as adjust
color depth and dozens of other things.    It may be found at almost any one
of the download sites.    I've used this program for quite a few years in
different versions..... I can send a copy if you like.

    It doesn't actually do "compression", but converting to JPG format
compresses an image automatically.   The key to doing scans is to select a
resolution that makes sense.   If you want it to display on a single screen
on most computers scan at 75 dpi  (for a page size).   If the image is 1/4
page scan at 150 and it will display at 4x it's original size.   If you scan
a full page at 300 dpi it will end up 16 times screen size.   High res
images are only useful if you have a program to print from that will print
the image at original size and high resolution.... or if you want to blow an
image up for display on the screen.    Takes a bit of messing about to get
scanners & cameras figured out.
    You can also of course compress stuff like this with PKZip to send, but
does the guy on the other end want something that is 10mb when
decompressed??

                  H.W.

 
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