31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
3:16 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
No, that's the crazy thing: LZ77-based schemes are actually less
complicated than LZ78.
[...] but the
simple answer is that the compression scheme used by
PNG compresses smaller and decompresses faster than what GIF uses.
I never claimed otherwise. I merely pointed out it is a great deal
more complicated. Is it? I thought the discussion was talking about
colour line-art. In
We were? If that's the case, practically anything will work for B&W
line art, although I'd probably lean toward TIFF (GIF has resolution
limits IIRC).
If you don't have a need for more than 256 colors, you don't have a need
for PNG. But don't dismiss the format just because you don't have a
need for it.
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