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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Alistair George
> Sent: Friday, 11 February 2000 17:58
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Streams
> Incidentally, whilst searching for the jpeg protocols, I found
> out that jpeg
> can be a lossy format insofar as depending on what standard one is using,
> the file is deteriorated on each save, due to compression losses. However
> GIF does not suffer from that problem.
GIF however can not be used to save more than 256 colours AFAIK - JPEG is
the only thing for photos because it can contain millions of colours.
Yes JPEG is a lossy compression format - otherwise it would not be possible
to make a JPEG image as small as it is. In fact you choose how much loss you
can put up with when you save your JPEG.
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