Tarfile .bz2

Yu-Xi Lim yuxi at ece.gatech.edu
Tue Dec 12 03:48:04 EST 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Well, .jpg files are already compressed in a lossy way (.jpg is
> inherently lossy); to compress it further, you need to increase
> the loss. PNG is also compressed already, see

Not really. Stuffit has a JPEG compressor which takes advantage of the
fact that the JPEG algorithm isn't as optimal as it can be. It converts
JPEG images to its own more compact representation which then can be
converted back to JPEG as needed, without any loss. It is sadly not free.





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