23 Sep
2004
23 Sep
'04
1 p.m.
>>>> "John" == John Foust
<jfoust(a)threedee.com> writes:
John> At 01:35 AM 9/22/2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
> PS: to John Foust (I think it was) that politely
reminded me some
> time ago of the obvious fact that JPEGs are lossy. I did
> everything in TIFF format, but my browser (konqueror) would not
> load TIFF images! [..] So I had to convert to JPEG, sigh. I have
> the TIFFs should I stumble upon a solution.
John> Could have been, I have no memory - but it's something I'd
John> likely tell someone.
John> If your image-converting program is smart, it will let you use
John> a 0..255 grey palette for a GIF. If it's true line-art with no
John> greys, it'll have better compression with almost any palette
John> that has a black and a white in it.
GIMP is an excellent program for this sort of thing, and it's free.
It even does GIF.
PNG does this well also.
paul