hi everybody, sorry for this late reply.... :( i was a little busy. there is this s/w called sea viewer for dos which further compresses any jpg file to a file format called progressive jpg... without much change in the quality of the image and the size gets reduced considerably.... however these compressed files can only be viewed form within a html page or this particular s/w ( actually i tried viewing the compressed file through paint shop pro 3.0 , microsoft photo editor , wangs imaging and old versions of adobe photoshop but could not open it ) so if u intend to put these images on the web.... u can happily do so.... the images gets loaded much faster as these files are smaller.... this s/w can be got from www.photodex.com but go through the license agreement.... :) i hope this will be useful for ur purpose bye chetu -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.