At 11:50 AM -0800 1/17/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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
Yeah, as I suggested in another message to this thread, I'm not
overly concerned as long as I know that *I* can ensure that any JPEGs
or whatever that *I* create for a project will be encoded
appropriately. And when I was messing around with GraphicConverter on
the Mac, I just opened the error-producing graphics and resaved and
they appeared just fine. If I were thinking of using MetaCard to just
go and browse for miscellaneous graphics all across the Internet, I
guess I would be worried; but whatever graphics we use will be
internally produced, part of our own package, and therefore under our
control.
Regards,
David
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David Cramer, Process Innovation Evangelist 87-1313 Border Street
PBSC Computer Training Centres (an IBM company) Winnipeg MB R3H 0X4
Corporate Office Research & Development Canada
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