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    Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash —Tim Courtney
   (...) Which brings up another issue. Does anyone have one of those gif compressors that take several k out of each file so nicely and conveniently? If so, when the ldraw.org images are done, could you run them through it? Or is there a freeware one (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash —Mike Stanley
     (...) Since we've mentioned other Macromedia products, I've used Fireworks for this. It has a cool preview feature that lets you tweak out an image, deciding on quality vs size and it even gives you an estimate of the download time at 28.8. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash —Jacob Sparre Andersen
     (...) Usually I just use PNG instead of GIF which cuts roughly 20% of the file size (on average). If you want to improve the GIF compression of images you have to reduce the colour depth of the images. I use pnmdepth (from the netpbm/pbmplus (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash —Tim Courtney
   (...) I do have the capability of using PNG, but I am wary about browser support for them. I do remember when you brought up the topic two years ago on the Minifig World Tour that there was little browser support for it. Does IE5 and Netscape 4.7 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash —Jacob Sparre Andersen
     Tim Courtney (tcourtney@avenew.com) wrote: [...] (...) Netscape 4.* and MSIE5 supports PNG, but I am afraid it's only non-transparent images it handles correctly. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: [ldraw.org] Shockwave Flash —Tim Courtney
   (...) Hmmm.. Well, it does sound like an attractive option for file size, but IMO its too early since a lot of people still run 3.0 browsers. And IE5 hasn't been out that long. I just got it a couple weeks ago. If most IE users won't be able to see (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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