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From: cms2839@isc.rit.edu (a.stranger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: compression ratio for bitmap files?
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.230021.9409@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 23:00:21 GMT
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In article <Qbqadfy00WAwEC0Htl@andrew.cmu.edu> hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) writes:
>what's the typical compression ratio for Window's bmp files? I just compressed
>a bmp file from 130k to 38k.

				depends entirely on the contents of the
bmp . complex , and especially dithered designs will have a smaller
compression ratio , whereas designs with large fields of solid colour
will compress tightly .

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