File formats

[Harry G]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:53, Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 0.8K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> > TIFF is an uncompressed, raw image format, and I believe that its
> > lossless.  So the images are HUGE (in filesize).
> 
> TIFF is lossless and, indeed, file sizes are enormous.
>  
> > PNG is a compressed lossy format.
> 
> Thanks for playing! PNG compression is lossless. 
> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html


Thanks for the info, gentlemen, not to mention adding 2 new words to my
vocabulary.  (Thank goodness for the dictionary applet!  I first thought
Net Llama meant lousy, not lossy!)

Harry G