On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> on 1/16/00 3:41 PM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I think that may be the problem: On Unix systems it even prints out an
> > error message about it not being recognized as a JPEG file. Not sure
> > how I got it to display before when I tried, but maybe I mistyped or
> > something (menuV4.gif does work).
>
> Hmmm....what is is about UNIX that prevents this widely-used JPEG option
> from being acceptable in anything other than browsers?
The fact that there is no OS-level support for JPEG (or any other
image, audio, or video format for that matter). Which means that
MetaCard has to have a JPEG decoder built into it, a decoder based on
the original JPEG implementation that was designed and built before
progressive support had even been thought of. And just to avoid
version problems (and a complete breakdown if QT isn't installed),
this same decoder is used in the Windows and Mac engines. Updating
the JPEG decoder and/or using QT for this if it's installed is on the
to-do list, but its priority hasn't come up yet.
Regards,
Scott
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