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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: JPEG compression errors ?!
Message-ID: <4022@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 91 01:37:26 GMT
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In article <D88-JWA.91Jun5105246@byse.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:

| In a few years, of course, this discussion will be academic, but I
| suggest people really try to get the originals for JPEG encoding,
| since the gain is so obvious.

  I agree. JPEG works much better when compressing a 24 bit Targe file,
which can then be turned into a GIF for viewing.
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