#Converting to .GIF
05-Aug-93 22:55:11
Sb: #33878-#Converting to .GIF
Fm: R. B. Nielsen 73617,2011
To: Kermit Woodall 71021,2753
Thanks for the reply! Sometimes I see .GIFS with huge file sizes. These are
apparently VGA/SuperVGA-to-GIF renderings. When I do an image scan on a frame
grabber, I get a half-meg RAW file, which compresses down to about 300k. By
the time I've converted down to GIF via IFF, I'm down to about 70k. I realize
there are some inherent diminishing returns here – absolute limits imposed by
the code.
If you wanted to convert your Amiga-generated scan to a GIF whose image
was as close to, let's say, HAM qaulity, what would you use?