And it came to pass that A Martinez wrote:
>>>And about the format, I always use png for screen captures.
>>>You can use .gif as well, but please don't use jpg as it
>>>introduces noise and can meke the capture useless.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> WHAT??!?! jpg is the most widely supported format - GIF
>> takes up too much bandwidth, and few programs support .PNG.
>>
>>
>>
>
> .png isn't something new. If you are using a program that
> doesn't support it then you shoud get a new version or
> another program. Mozilla supports .png and we are talking
> (at least I am) about screen captures to submit to bugzilla.
And if ALL you are talking about is Bugzilla, fine.
In general, tain't a very widely supported format.
>
> If you take a screen capture and compress it to .jpg then
> the final image will be different than the original, the
> text will have lots of noise around them, any sharp borders
> (and there are lots of lines in a screen capture) will have
> noise, unless you compress the image so little that it
> becomes much bigger that a proper .png .jpg is perfecto for
> photos or that kind of images, but not for screen captures.
>
>
But Mozilla's news reader sucks eggs. And as most people have
the sense to post JPEGs, my current newsreader (a release a
month old) is perfectly adequate.
But for Bugzilla, fine.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
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