On 7 Sep 2006 at 11:20, Johannes Gebauer wrote:

> On 06.09.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
> > It makes no sense at all to send a black and white file as a JPG. It
> > makes much more sense to use GIF of PNG, which are much efficient
> > for this type of graphic.
> 
> Very much agreeed, not just because of efficiency, but also quality, a
> black and white JPEG never renders well. A GIF does.

Well, that's not entirely true. The quality of the JPG depends on the 
compression ratio. A very low one, less than 5% will result in a file 
that displays indistinguishably from GIF of PNG or TIF, but it will 
not be very efficient in terms of file size by comparison.

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David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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