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In article 24767@a.cs.okstate.edu, jmccorm@a.cs.okstate.edu (MCCORMICK JOSHUA C) writes:
>From article <38346@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green):
>> 	The quality loss from reducing your 24 bit data to only 256 colors
>> (GIF) is much higher than the loss from a jpeg compression.
>
>On standard 8 bit data files, however, the situation is reversed. In either
>case, you need not waste time with a GIFLITE picture converting it into a
>viewable format.
>
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Define viewable format. All the picture viewers I use on my PC allow me to
view JPEGS directly, no need to convert them to GIFs or anything else.

I think one reason that a lot of BBS's don't like JPEG's is that their "cute"
advertisments in the corner of the pictures get mangled by the JPEG compression.

BTW, GIFLITE also uses a lossy compression scheme.
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