Really, the whole discussion doesn't grok as there's no reason to compress your
working image files since they are usually not transmitted across a narrow pipe
like WEB graphics. I suppose there's some saving of disk space, but so what?
Pesonally, I use Genuine Fractals.
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Lyin like a lion in Zion.
>>> frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 15:42:05 05/16/2001 >>>
On 5/16/01 6:02 PM, "Scott Nelson" <SNelson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have to respectfully disagree, LZW is notorious for actually making TIFF
> files BIGGER.
It depends on the graphic but you're right, I've seen it happen. I have one
program (graphic converter, on the Mac) which also offers an option of LZW
with prediction. That seems to give me a smaller file size in any situation
(even those that were compressed with plain LZW seem to get smaller, and the
ones that used to be actually bigger do actually see some compression as
well). It is a bit slower but I've never had a problem with opening these
files in any graphics program.
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