| From: | Jan-Erik Karlsson |
| Date: | 10 May 2001 at 13:48:31 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Active- things to do! |
Hello, Alan
On 10-May-01, you wrote:
AB > hi,
AB >
AB >> What's wrong with GIFs and JPEGs? As long as you have a suitable
AB >> datatype, Birdie will use any bitmap file format.
AB >
AB > whilst theres the licence issue - and no good free datatypes for GIF I
AB > think we should avoid GIf at all times.
there is the WarpGIF.datatype
AB > PNG is far more preferable if you need lossless compression
actually GIF's might be better than both jpeg and png when it comes to
compression
(this is very much a what type picture you're compressing just as ILBM's is
actually very efficient -compared to some other picture types-)
With kind regards,
Jan-Erik Karlsson
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