John Chambers wrote:
Hmmm ... I see I wasn't specific enough. With JPEG, GIF and PNG
files, you can include them *inside* a page with a tag like:
img src=http://foo.bar.com/junk.gif; alt=pretty picture
This will cause the image to be displayed as part of the web page,
Eric wrote:
If you want to have a look, I've copied the test files here :
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.gif and
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.pdf
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.ps
This seems to make my point exactly. I've put up a picture containing
Forgeot Eric wrote:
I don't really agree, even if you're right in some extends :
A gif file (I mean a partition) that looks cool on a browser with
16 colours is ci. 9 ko. The same in ps is 29 ko, but converted in
pdf it's only 11 ko (I've tried for a small tune).
Well, yes and no, Eric.
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Phil Taylor wrote:
John Chambers wrote:
GIF is only used because browsers understand it.
No, it's used because it's the most efficient way of compressing a
black and white (or 256 colour) picture into a small file.
I wrote:
Eric wrote:
If you want to have a look, I've copied the test files here :
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.gif and
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.pdf
http://anamnese.online.fr/lastened/princess.ps
This seems to make my point exactly. I've put up a picture
Richard Robinson wrote:
The newer
PNG format is just as good, and free, but not yet as popular.
Why? For exactly one reason: browsers (the big one esp) were not
supporting png until recently. And since one must expect quite a few
users to still be using their 4.0 or 5.0 browsers
Rick == Rick Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rick For Linux, the latest Netscape I could get (the last time I
Rick checked) was 4.51 or something like that, and I don't think
Rick it does PNG yet.
I think it does; I think all Netscape 4.x does png. I'm
running 4.73, and it
Laura Conrad wrote:
Rick == Rick Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rick For Linux, the latest Netscape I could get (the last time I
Rick checked) was 4.51 or something like that, and I don't think
Rick it does PNG yet.
I think it does; I think all Netscape 4.x does png. I'm
Well put, Mr. Chambers. I for one appreciate your "long and useless comments." Keep up the good work! Dave Musgrave McDade, Texas, USA This is both facetious and insulting. The abcusers list existsprimarily to help users. These are mostly musicians who aren'tcomputer experts, but who are
Agreed. Why else would one subscribe to this list than to read and benefit from long
and useless comments? ;-)
Rick
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:15:17 -0500 Paul Musgrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well put, Mr. Chambers. I for one appreciate your long and useless comments. Keep
up the good
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Objet : Re: [abcusers] Antialiasing
Christophe writes:
| Antialiasing is a feature you can turn off both in GhostView and in
| Acrobat Reader
Rick writes:
| Agreed. Why else would one subscribe to this list than to read and benefit from
|long and useless comments? ;-)
Paul Musgrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| Well put, Mr. Chambers. I for one appreciate your long and useless comments.
|Keep up the good work! Dave Musgrave
Christophe writes:
| I find PDF a good (if not perfect it's a lot better than GIF IMHO)
| format for document exchange and I found useful to say that to help
| users who want to exchange music with non abc litterate friends.
Yeah; PDF (and PS) are a lot better than GIF or any other format that
John Chambers wrote:
Christophe writes:
| I find PDF a good (if not perfect it's a lot better than GIF IMHO)
| format for document exchange and I found useful to say that to help
| users who want to exchange music with non abc litterate friends.
Yeah; PDF (and PS) are a lot better than GIF or
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, John Chambers wrote:
(Wouldn't it be useful if browsers would display PS and PDF? As far
as I can tell, the reason they don't is that PS and PDF are patented
formats owned by Adobe. This ought not to matter, since it's legal to
decode and display them. But it's easy
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Phil Taylor wrote:
John Chambers wrote:
GIF is only used because browsers understand it.
No, it's used because it's the most efficient way of compressing a
black and white (or 256 colour) picture into a small file.
True in low resolution files, but not in print
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