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Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:54:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> I've been meaning to ask about image file formats for a while now.
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> What are the preferred file formats for these pics? Right now I have
> ldglite dumping png files since they're true color, fairly well compressed,
> and not lossy like jpg. I could make bmp an option since I had that
> working before I switched to png. I could add others if people really
> want them.
Which pics? The ones in the ldraw\vec directory? Or part-images in
general?
Png is a good format, but still not very widespread. LDAO reads bmp 10x
faster than anything else, and doesn't recognize png.
I usually do gif for web stuff, and bmp-rle for local stuff.
Steve
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| (...) JPG is NOT lossy, i.e. it's NOT required to be lossy, it can be defined to be 100% accurate ! (...) Actually I think that the best format is the GIF format, due to the type of compressing it uses and our specific renderer used for the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <SNIP> (...) I've been meaning to ask about image file formats for a while now. What are the preferred file formats for these pics? Right now I have ldglite dumping png files since they're true color, fairly (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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