Re: JPEG viewer?

[handel@lars.acc.stolaf.edu (Peter F Handel)]

In article <CwJ6Ew.A38@actrix.gen.nz> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>In article <BK.BW.780200769.1103527590.jlange@yvr.cyberstore.ca>,
>Jamie B Lange  <jlange@yvr.cyberstore.ca> wrote:
>> Reply:
>> 
>> > I know there is a GIF viewer for the IIGS (can someone remind me where, 
>> > please?) but I was wondering if there is one for JPEG?
>> >
>> 
>> I found one on cco.caltech.edu
>> 
>> It needs to be run from a shell like Gno or Orca, I didn't get it working, but
>> maybe you'll have better luck..
>
>It isn't a viewer, only a converter.  (DJPEG).  It worked fine for me,
>but took a very long time - a 300k-ish JPEG took about three hours to
>convert to a 1.2MB GIF file on my unaccelerated IIgs.  I couldn't
>display the resulting file, but it worked fine on a PC-based GIF
>viewer on a friend's computer.
>
>He later got hold of the same JPEG conversion program and ran it on
>his 486 DX-2/66, and it took 12 minutes to do the same conversion.  :-)

Yep, 486 DX/2 66's are quick...I ran Something in the Attic I (in St.
Louis) on one (but Metal/FV still KICKS WWIV all over the place!).

Ok, I'll post the Jpeg _VIEWER_ to the binaries tomorrow.  It's a pre-
release, and only converts them to B/W (but it's a very good conversion)
and doesn't let you save them.


>-- 
>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

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