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Subject:RE: Convert Paper Documentation to Web Format From:Dan Emory <danemory -at- primenet -dot- com> To:"Sarah O'Keefe" <okeefe -at- scriptorium -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 3 May 2000 11:07:19 -0700
Thanks for that reminder Sarah. After whipping of my reply to the original
poster, I realized that I hadn't mentioned that some types of compression
are lossless.
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At 01:42 PM 5/3/00 -0400, Sarah O'Keefe wrote:
>>2. Compressing graphics (other than vector graphics) is almost always a bad
>>idea that adversely affects not only the printed output but also on-line
>>readability.
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>More specifically, using lossy compression is a bad idea. For example, JPEG
>compression for screen shots is going to cause all sorts of problems.
>However, ZIP 8-bit compression is lossless and will reduce the size of
>screen images considerably without affecting the display or printed output.
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