Glenn Fleishman on Nostr: Trying to reproduce screens that were printed as samples using a PDF is tricky. At ...

Trying to reproduce screens that were printed as samples using a PDF is tricky. At left, the “original” TIFF (LZW compressed); at right, the compressed PDF version created through defaults in Acrobat (i.e., opening TIFFs, combining into a PDF, and saving). The compression destroys the line pattern as it doesn't conform to the lossy algorithm’s expectation of detail. (From “Ben Day”; https://archive.org/details/ben-day-jahn-ollier-engraving )