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RE: is there any support for stuffit ? [turn into \"jpg compression in Stuffit\" ? ]
On 29 May 2007 19:52, morgan gangwere wrote:
>> ROFL! I just went to the stuffit expander web page, and one of the
>> aaaaamazing new features they're hyping is
>>
>> " Losslessly compress JPEG files with no loss in quality"
>>
>> Well, yeh, I understand it's /technically/ true, but they should really
>> say
>>
>> " Losslessly compress JPEG files with no *more* loss in quality than the
>> massive loss in quality that you got by converting them to JPEGs in the
>> first place ... "
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> DaveK
>
> well DUuUuUUh. if you put JPG files in ANY compressed format they are
> _by_definition_ no more lossy than before.
Umm, no, if you put JPG files in "ANY" compressed format, they are
_by_definition_ "compressed". Nothing else. It all depends on whether you're
using a *lossless* or *lossy* compression format, which you didn't actually
mention.
cheers,
DaveK
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