Re: JPEG & APW

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From: Ed Krimen
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 06:03

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> There is an undocumented feature in APM that lets you import
> and display JPEG images, which is really a great boon.  The
> windows version has a bug in it that causes it not to display
> JPEG files.  So if you are porting an application you have to
> decompress all your JPEG files and reimport them into APW.
> Does anybody know if Macromedia has come up with a patch or
> slipstream upgrade that remedies this problem?

This is not a bug in APW; this is the way Quicktime on the Mac and Quicktime
for Windows differ.

Quicktime for the Mac enables any application that can import PICT files
to import PICT files that have been JPEG-compressed.  Quicktime for
Windows simply does not have this feature.

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