I have some image files for which the extension may have been
written incorrectly, i.e. they say .jpg but i suspect they are
really png's. Can GIMP tell me the file type of a file it has
opened. I know it examines the magic numbers to determine how to
handle it so it must know. How
Quoting Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Peter Jon White wrote:
Different than what? If you mean different than the three original
posts asking for assistance, they got no response at all. Perhaps
that's what you mean by better results? It was only when I made my
critical post that I got any reply.
Quoting Kalle Ounapuu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your
PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting it
down a little bit?
Err, there isn't any compression in PNG that is lossy. At all. PNG is
lossless
in all modes. So
Quoting Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:08 +0100, Simon Budig wrote:
Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[MM Fireworks]
He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold
faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format.
I asked
I'll admit up front to not having followed the conversation so far.
What quality levels you use on JPEG depends heavily on the type of data you are
wanting to store, you quality requirements, space requirements, etc. As an
example (worked up for a map conversation)
