jpeg or tiff file?

[jim shula]

I'm going to look at cutting a boat kit, and the two possible file types they can supply are either a jpeg or a tiff. I'm pretty sure I'll end up doing a bitmap trace in Aspire of the shapes to be cut, but is either one going to better than the other?

[Brady Watson]

TIFF will most likely be higher resolution, but potentially VERY large on disk. JPEG is a 'lossy' type image file, which takes advantage of how color is perceived by the human eye to reduce file size.

-B