Subject: Re: GIFs
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 11:32:23 CDT
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From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <leonardr@lazerware.com>
To: <phma@oltronics.net>; <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: GIFs
> At 09:49 AM 5/10/2001 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> First, converting from PNG to PNM is a lossly conversion. Second,
> screen shots do NOT display well as JPEG since the JPEG algorithm tends to
> blur text.
>
> Screen shots should be PNG!
And I recommend running Pngcrush on them. This can reduce their sizes
dramatically (typically somewhere between 1% to 30%) -- lossless. <URL:
http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/ >.
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