LGP-21 Hardware Training Manual

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Thu Sep 23 13:00:15 CDT 2004


>>>>> "John" == John Foust <jfoust at 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




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