#JPEG vs. GIF
JPEG has quite a few nice things going for it and I use it all the time
with ImageFX. For one thing, JPEG is a 24-bit (16 million color)
compressed image format while GIF is only 8-bit (256 colors), so you have
a much larger palette to work with in the color map conversions. As far as
the JFIF datatype, it might do a much better job of dithering than ZGIF.
So as far as I'm concerned, it wouldn't bother me a bit if GIF dies
because of the Unisys/CompuServe royalty fiasco. JPEG might not be the
best if you need 24-bit true color accuracy because of it's degrading of
the image depending on compression, but for most purposes, it does a good
job.
// John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840)
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