Re: Gimp Wishes (i18n and jpeg)

2000-04-05 Thread Ian Boreham
At 06:21 AM 4/5/00 +0200, Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got it wrong: saving a jpeg in ANY quality (higher or lower) causes loss of quality. Saving in the same quality as the original image causes quality loss depending on the selected quality. As I said, the only effect is a

Re: Gimp Wishes (i18n and jpeg)

2000-04-05 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:40:37PM +1000, Ian Boreham wrote: From my understanding of JPEG (which is not expert), I would have thought that although there might be a small loss of quality on subsequent cycles, due to rounding-type errors, there would not be anywhere near the same as the

Re: Gimp Wishes (i18n and jpeg)

2000-04-05 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:38:45PM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote: I suspect that choosing a non-integer implementation (which might be faster on modern Intel hardware) would increase the damage from subsequent cycles, but I've never tested that. Have now, it makes no difference, so that's another

Re: Gimp Wishes (i18n and jpeg)

2000-04-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:56:43PM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote: Have now, it makes no difference, so that's another factor eliminated. In fact, the integer code seems to produce the same image data as the float code On my machine, the FP code usually generates _slightly_ (think 40-50 bytes) smaller

Re: Gimp Wishes (i18n and jpeg)

2000-04-04 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:24:37PM +0200, Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saving in higher quality means vaste of disk space. Saving with less quality will cause loss of quality. So the best is to save certain jpeg in the same quality all times. You got it wrong: saving a jpeg in