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From: martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Daniel Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GIF/JPG compression tech
Keywords: GIF, JPG, Amiga, convert.
Message-ID: <1991May7.234042.6219@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: 7 May 91 23:40:42 GMT
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In article <10082@plains.NoDak.edu> jones@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Jones ) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>Am looking for anyone knowing anything about the new compression technique
>known as JPG for compressing GIF files on MS-DOS machines.
>
>Is there a convert program for the Amiga that works with this format?
>
>Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Replys may be sent to jones@plains.nodak.edu
>Thanks

   If you refer to the JPEG compression standard, you can have a full
description in April 1991, Communication of the ACM, Volumen 34, Number 4.

   I doubt that any software supports this on the Amiga platform yet.  But
it shouldn't be long.  Followup redirected to comp.sys.amiga.graphics.

   Daniel.

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