Egcs Web Pages (Maintainer)

Jason Merrill jason@cygnus.com
Thu Oct 29 00:50:00 GMT 1998


>>>>> David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

>>>>> Gerald Pfeifer writes:
 Gerald> o I noticed that there are some (orange) pixels on the outside of
 Gerald> the egg; also the horns have some non-white pixels.

 > 	I think that some of this is due to the lossy JPEG algorithm.  GIF
 > probably would be better for art like this, but there are patent problems
 > with the GIF format preventing its use.

A high-quality (lower compression) JPEG is just as good as GIF.  And then
there's PNG...:)

Jason



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