Bird -
Guess I came in a little late on this one. Sorry 'bout that. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
If you're scanning a photograph, like a snapshot of your tractor or a portrait of your own handsome face, you will get the best results saving it as a
jpg file. You should be able to vary the compression to get your file size down to something reasonable. If you're exceeding 200K with a jpg, I'm guessing the physical size of your image is too big to start with. Whatever software you're using, it should have a provision for scaling it down to whatever size you want. If you want it to look good on just about everybody's screen, make sure the width doesn't exceed, say, 800 pixels. In fact, I believe Muhammad recommended a maximum width of 720 pixels.
Now then,
if you are scanning a line drawing and/or text, such as you find in Kubota manuals, do
not save it as a "jpg" -- that would be
very inefficient. Instead, save this type of image as a
gif file. This format works much better on images with very few colors, especially where the background is mostly one color, like the white pages in your manual. The compression is very good on this type of image, and will usually be smaller than a "jpg". Same rule applies about the width, though -- 800 pixels or less.
I would recommend staying away from
TIFF files for what you're doing. In general, TIFF's are
not compressed, and if you're scanning an 8-1/2 x 11, the file size will be humongous, and any application you use to manipulate it will need
lots[/b] of RAM. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Don't give up -- I want to see this thing myself. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
