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Currently, I have loads of Clip Art in Picturebase format which takes up a
lot of room on my hard drive.  Almost all of this art is in bitmap graphics
(i.e. MacPaint) format, and smaller than a screen.

I understand HyperCard has a marvelous bitmap graphics compression
algorithm.  With MultiFinder (and a whole lotta memory) I can keep HyperCard
sitting around (and do, as a matter of fact), and I'm thinking of moving my
art from PictureBase to HyperCard.

Question: Will I save room that way?  Does anyone know if PictureBase uses
any compression algorithms for saving bitmap graphics?

TIA (Thanks in advance...)

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