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- From: pooler@vccsouth29.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
- Subject: GIF is not Huffman (was: Re: GIF Viewers)
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <BxBzFy.HHp@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1dlosrINNe6o@uni-paderborn.de> <1992Nov9.215248.7538@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:57:58 GMT
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- GIF files emply LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) compression, NOT LZH (Lempel-Ziv-
- Huffman coding). Read the official Compuserve GIF specification.
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- JPEG uses either Huffman compression or a kind of mathematical compression
- algorithm that is patented by IBM (?) -- since you have to license a patent
- from Big Blue to implement a JPEG viewer that uses the latter form of
- compression, most JPEG files in circulation today use the former method. I
- got this info from the documentation for HamLab Plus, Ed Hanway's (fantastic!)
- shareware picture viewing/conversion program. The program views JPEGs, and
- the registered version I have can export JPEG files as well.
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- Rob Poole
- pooler@rpi.edu
- pooler@cs.rpi.edu
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