Digital BW, The Print

> From: Anthony G. Atkielski [mailto:anthony@...]
>
> Agreed.  But what file formats would be in this category?
>
> Theoretically, you could compress most image files enormously with no
> loss, given time and space to do an absolutely optimal compression.
> I've never heard of a file format that is designed for this purpose,
> though.

There are no file formats that I'm aware of that take an hour to compress,
unless you write the compressor in interpreted Basic and run it on an Apple
2. ;-)

However, in a more realistic vein, if you want to archive scanned images
with no visible loss, but significant space savings, and you want to
preserve more than eight-bit data, use JPEG2000.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...