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- From: wardrb@cs.utexas.edu (Richard Byron Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: compressing gif files
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:33:12 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- References: <1992Nov8.114946.11060@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <3309@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
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- In article <3309@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- |In <1992Nov8.114946.11060@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> chuang@csie.nctu.edu.tw ( ** No Record **) writes:
- |
- |>Dear user:
- |
- |> You can use the gifblast.exe find in CCCA Garbo/pc/gifutil/gifbla11.zip.
- |
- |>The author anounce that program can save about 25 to 30 percent of space.
- |
- |>Most important of all ,It's looseless compress(JPEG format is loosely compress)
- |
- |>So it's not so efficient as JPEG format in saving space but save the resolution
- |I am reasonably sure (the author of GIFBLAST mentioned it I believe) that
- |GIFBLAST does use lossy compression.
- |
- The main selling point of GIFBLAST is that it performs lossless compression,
- it's certainly not speed! The author did mention that the decompressed
- GIF may not match the original because of slight variations in the way that
- different programs encode GIFs, but that the information is unchanged.
-
- Rick
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