Paul R. Rohde wrote:
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>
> Is JPEG that good? It seems beaut for photos, but I've saved files in JPG
> of geometric designs (Flags, plain colours, sharp edges), but when opening
> the file later it seemed like a bad analogue TV reception! -- with
> ghosting of the line edges, and colour washing. You would think
> compressing of plain geometric shapes, of say only 5 colours total, would
> be easy. I tried saving with maximum quality (LView Pro, PC), but that
> made no difference. Whats going on here? GIF seemed to compress just as
> well but with no errors. Plus it decompresses faster.
Hi,
JPEG is very useful only for true color photos. For geometric designs
or cartoons use another file format, like GIF.
See the JPEG FAQ for more information:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/
Sergio
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http://w3.to/charin
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