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Re: Visio and Picture formats (was New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces)
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:57:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Mark Bellis wrote:
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Is GIF the standard highest compression, lowest loss format?
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Not sure if its the best, but certainly used a lot. It is lossless.
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If so, why
doesn’t everyone use them?
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Well a lot of people do. But that changed a while back because CompuServe
(who own the format) threatened to charge royalties for using it. I don’t
think anything came of that, but lots of websites converted all their GIFs to
other formats in case.
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Actually all the concern is now moot since the software patent for LZW
compression (which the GIF format uses) expired in 2004.
-Orion
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