Re: Gifs and Jpegs on a IIgs?

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: In article gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan) writes...
: >

: >I don't think there are any programs out there that create JPGs on a
: >IIgs.  The only type of commonly used GS graphic file that would need
: >JPG encoding would be 3200-color images.  Anything else can be encoded
: >as a GIF.  (Does the Second Sight card create new GS graphic file
: >formats resulting in more that 256 possible colors?)

: 	I think there may be a shell utility (requires Orca or GNO)
: which can create JPEG from other existing image files, although there's
: little point in doing so. Most multi palette Super-Hi-Res images
: are 8-bit color at most, even the majority of 3200 color images rarely
: exceed a total of 256 distinct colors (there may be 200 separate palettes,
: but often colors are repeated more than once in each 16-color palette).
: The only advantage then would be the higher compression used by JPEG.

The Shrinkit file is called jpeg.v6.shk.  It's available at either
apple2.caltech or ground.

Tilghman