[time-nuts] Three HP oldies

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Mar 12 17:13:59 UTC 2012


> Just a note about jpg files, they are intentionally
> fuzzed as the Japanese Photo Experts Group
> concept is in the interest of visual art.

s/Japanese/Joint/

> So if you
> make a jpg of a schematic much of it will not be
> readable. Try Graphics Interchange Format gif
> to preserve computer generated details like lines
> and text. Or if it is all text, the postscript file system
> is very good, it allows control of the entire page
> formatting in preservation of accurate alignments.
[]
> Greg

Actually, there is a lossless version of JPEG but it is little used.

PNG is a much better choice for graphics than GIF as it allows more than 
256 colours.  PNG has lossless compression.

Cheers,
David
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