LGP-21 Hardware Training Manual

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Thu Sep 23 13:00:15 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
Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 13:00:15 BST