Re: archiving GIF files on the GS

[mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)]

In article <2B26FEB9.24825@ics.uci.edu> jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
>can't really be compressed to save space, unless we want to have a
>Jpeg compressor for the GS (which we don't.)

Sure we do.  It works under GNO (supposedly).  I had the cjpeg (convert) and
djpeg (de-convert) programs.  All I know is that djpeg worked, but it took
so long that I didn't even want to consider running cjpeg.  I figured that 
it would take so long (like 8+ hours, in some cases) that it really wouldn't
be worth your while since the disk space saved would be negligible in terms
of time spent converting!

Converting to a jpeg would certainly give you significant space saving, but
unless someone takes the time to optimize the code (I would do it if I had
time to learn a language!), it's not going to be worth it.  (Gosh, I how
many times am I gonna say that?!?).

I think you get the picture.

	Later,
		...Mike
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