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- From: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh DISABLED)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: JPEG compressions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172200.27004@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:22:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pony.1993Jan26.172200.27004
- References: <1993Jan23.093844.27675@etek.chalmers.se> <1993Jan23.164122.22989@crash> <C1F43D.3q7.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1993Jan26.101300.14686@nntp.hut.fi>
- Reply-To: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
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- In article <1993Jan26.101300.14686@nntp.hut.fi> hurlum@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Juhani Holopainen) writes:
- >
- >Very true... i snapped my 900*800 wb screen and got a 63k iff file to be used
- >as a X-window background pic, but as i couldn't find anything that
- >support iff file format :(, i converted it to jpeg with hamlab+...
- >and got a 173k file with Q 75.
- >
-
- The PPM utils will convert iff files (ILBM forms) to lots of formats,
- including GIF, which works well for X displays (which are 8-bit anyway).
- On our machine they came as part of X11R4. Also, I think they're
- ftp-able from somewhere. Anyone know? xport.lcs.mit.edu?
-
- Matt
-