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Originally Posted by falcolas
I'm working on a tool which might help prepare images for Kindle ebooks. My one question - what is the best file format to output the images in?
The attached file is from my initial testing (using an image from this thread previously).
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Out of curiosity - what is it going to do different from my tool (
http://www.foosoft.net/mangle)? Even though it's written for manga it should work for everything else...
Anyways, in terms of format I think GIF is the best option, especially when you convert to grayscale (less colors is best, get more run length for LZW compression). It doesn't have re-compression artifacts of JPG, smaller in size than PNG. The 256 color limit in the format is obviously a non-factor.