At 14:35 13/01/99 +0100, OMer wrote:
>GIF sucks. It is indeed a very lossy coder. It codes only 256 colors with
>a stupid color quantizer, therefore your image gets dithered and has the
>un-appealing look.
Yeah - it's hopeless for photos I agree, but I was thinking more from the
point of view of whether any *more* information is lost on repeated saves.
>I strongly recommend the SPIHT coder (a wavelet based very
>smart and fast coder) for coding your images for your own backup. It is
>really visually transparent at 1:4 to 1:8 compression ratios. Furthermore
>they provide a truly lossless coder on their web site, as well.
Thanks for the info and links, I'll check them out :-)
Regards
Richard
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