On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:57:27PM -0700, Joseph Chen wrote:
> Another issue with JPEG and other highly compressed formats is that a
> low number of bit errors in the file can result in a completely unusable
> image. TIFFs are much more reliable in that single bit errors will
> result in single pixel alterations.
>
Be careful, a lot of programs compress tiff-files with a lossless compression
algorithm. Which also makes them prone to bit errors.
Frieder Faig
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