Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Doug Franklin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:07:38 -0400 (EDT), Kenneth Waller wrote:
>>
>>> Mike, jpeg, by definition is a compression program. No matter
>>> what the setting, when utilized, it will by definition toss out
>>> some info.
>>
>> That's because JPEG is JPEG, not because it's a compression program.
>> Many compression algorithms exist that do not lose any data.
>
>Foe example <drumroll> lossless jpeg!
>
>http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-13.html

And from that section:
"Lossless JPEG has never been popular --- in fact, no common
applications support it "

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