On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 09:41:57PM +0100, Christen Fihl wrote:
> Try compress the images. Look at the zlib homepage at
>
> http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib.html
>
> There is some Palm specific stuff too.
palmzlib.sourceforge.net, or use the PNG format which uses zlib, and
is part of ZBoxZ (palmboxer.sourceforge.net).
> Or use a non-looseless (ie loose some information) compression like
> jpeg. (Might also be on that page)
You mean lossy, or non lossless compression.
> To get an idea of what you would gain, try on a pc to zip a picture,
> or save it as a jpeg file.
Or a PNG. GIFs use a similar type of compression, but there may be
patent problems.
> You can get nice pictures in 10 kbytes, depending of its contents.
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