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From: c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: compressing gifs
Keywords: compress archive
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.234732.11707@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 23:47:32 GMT
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In article <11442@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hartlemp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Michael P Hartley) writes:
>   Is there some way to compress/archive gif files?  I have
>tried the normal archivers (zip, arc, lzh, ect...) and
>they can only store the gif.  No compression.  I would
>appreciate pointers to some gif archiver.

The problem with GIF's is that they're already compressed.  General-purpose
archivers can't compress them much tighter.  However, I know of at least
one shareware program which will convert GIF files to JPG format, yielding
approximately 50% compression.  Of course, these JPG files can't be
displayed directly, but there is a significant reduction in the size of the
GIF.
Followup to comp.compression.

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