How can I submit very large files of scanned figures by e-mail?
When large plates are scanned at 600 dpi, the size of the TIFF files can be very large and these files can be difficult to transmit by e-mail because some e-mail servers limit the size of outgoing/incoming mails. If you can, please use LZW compression when you save the file in TIFF. This will reduce the size of the file significantly without the loss of resolution. Please try to attach only one file to one message to reduce the size of each mail. Please make sure that line drawings are scanned as B&W line drawing (1 bit) but not grey scale images (8 bit). Please save colour images and grey scale plates as jpg file (highest quality). This will reduce file size considerably. If you have compression tools, you may zip several files and submit the zipped file. It is important to remember that the matter size for plates in Zootaxa is 14cm wide and 20 cm high. Please do make the final plate size larger than this. If you crop your plates to the right size, use compression and send plates over
