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In response to Danny Engleman's message about FIF.........

We purchased a copy of the 'Colorbox' Fractal Image program produced
by Iterated Systems about a year ago. Initially it seems to be excellent
with much reduced file sizes. However there are a couple of downsides.
It uses a function similar in operation to Display Dib (APW) to display the
image, but is measurably slower. There is a reduction in quality but this
depends on the amount of compression used and the type of image.
e.g. A photo of a bird would reproduce well, but an Architect's plan not
so well.

This program provides compression and decompression in software-only.
However you can buy a compression board (expensive) which will
provide High Resolution (HR) images which decompress in software. We
were advised that they have HR software compression but prefer to
sell you a board! Every time you display a Iterated Systems .FIF image
in your courseware, you also have to pay them some money and put
a copyright message on the screen such as"Fractal compressed image
copyright Iterated Systems etc. etc........" in a minimum 10 point
size. At the moment we're not planning to use it until the price comes down.

Definitely worth having a look at but watch the company small print!!
Fractal Video is also good but v. expensive. Hope this is useful info.

Mark.

Mark Terrett
CAL Group
Cripps Computing Centre
University of Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK