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Re: Gif picture re-ordering (CLARIFICATION)

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From: Ron Dippold
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 00:50
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In article <cs442a07.672064530@zaphod> cs442a07@zippy.cs.iastate.edu writes:
>cs442a07@cs.iastate.edu (Sunny the Great) writes:
>
>I thought I had better clarify what I meant....
>
>>I would like to find a utility (PC-based or C-source) which takes a gif
>>file, and converts it in the following fashion:
>[...]
>Its simple really - I want the picture to be a little more compressible 
>than it normally is... 
>
>Reason why:  I intend to have lots of picfiles.  While GIFs do a good job 
>compressing the pictures, if the pictures are decompressed, translated as above
>and then recompressed (with PKZIP or ARJ or LHARC or whatever) I might
>be able to save space... even 5% is welcomed.

Have you considered using a JPEG compressor?  That usually compresses GIFs
down to about %50-%70 percent of their original size for me.

-- 
Standard disclaimer applies, you legalistic hacks.     |     Ron Dippold
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Subject: Re: Gif picture re-ordering (CLARIFICATION)
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