On 1998-04-01 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk :Have you actually checked this? GIF's do compress well, and you are :correct on loseless... but if you are just GIFfing the scans, they :do *not* compress well. GIFs are just RLE compressed (That's Run :Length Encoding for all you non-gfx types out there) and if you no they aren't - they use a form of lempel-ziv compression, which is why they tend to compress anything pretty well. they aren't much good on photos, but anything with a small range of colours is meat to the grist. -- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...