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From: Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP E1938 Web Page
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:48:14 -0700
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> > JPG can be set to be losless, it's supported by the standard, but I
> > agree   GIF or TIFF is better. 

Let's separate the JPEG standard from the baseline JPEG file format JFIF (known
as JPG or .jpg). The JFIF file-format selects a profile of the JPEG standard
also known as baseline JPEG. Baseline JPEG is not lossless. A number of nifty
features from the JPEG standard (such as the IBM entropy codec) is left out the
baseline format. TIFF (which is not one compression algorithm, but a format
supporting several algorithms) supports the full JPEG standard, but this is
rarely supported in real life.

> gif and png are (normally) lossless compression.  They are intended for 
> graphs and such that only use a few colors.
> 
> jpg and tiff are intended for pictures with zillions of colors.  jpg is 
> normally lossy and tiff is normally lossless.

... in real life. Then we have upcomming JPEG2000. Wavelet compression.

Cheers,
Magnus

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