Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice

2011-01-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Ralph Zerbonia ra...@universecentral.com wrote: My question is whether or not anyone knows of any image disadvantages, is there anything about LZW that would allow a loss of any visual fidelity? LZW is indeed lossless. I just did a quick test[0] to be sure

Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice

2011-01-22 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/22/2011 01:04 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Ralph Zerbonia ra...@universecentral.com wrote: My question is whether or not anyone knows of any image disadvantages, is there anything about LZW that would allow a loss of any visual fidelity? LZW is indeed

Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice

2011-01-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: a) For images under (for example) 50 MB in size, and on systems that are modern, fast, and with lots of memory, is there an approximate rule of thumb regarding how much longer opening and saving operations will take? I've