Presentation Guidelines
Parabaik and Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
Image Derivatives
Master or Archival Copy
Parabaiks are usually written with brush and ink. This gives them enough stroke width to be captured at 24 bit, 200 dpi and saved as TIFF with lossless compression. Although as noted earlier a 24 bit, 150 dpi scanner setting will also do the job. Here is a sample of a 24 bit, 200 dpi image that has been converted to JPG for display in the Internet. Press the Back of your browser after viewing the file.
Palm leaf manuscripts are incised with a stylus and can be scanned to capture the text at 8 bit, 100 dpi. Here is a sample of an 8 bit, 100 dpi image that has been converted to JPG for display in the Internet. Press the Back of your browser after viewing the file.
Institutions who would like to capture the artifactual value of a palm leaf manuscript can use 24 bit, 150 dpi. Here is a sample of a 24 bit, 150 dpi image that has been converted to JPG for display in the Internet. Press the Back of your browser after viewing the file.
Screen and Print
Here is an JPG image, scaled to a pixel height of 600, of a parabaik scaled to fit in a standard monitor display. Here is another image scaled to a pixel height of 500. Press the Back of your browser after viewing the file.
This is a JPG sample of a text only capture of a palm leaf. Press the Back of your browser after viewing the file.
For palm leaves that were scanned in full color, it can be displayed on user screens as JPG. Here is a sample.
Image Enhancement
This process may be necessary in order to get the best quality of derivatives.
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