"clipka" <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote in message 
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> Chris B schrieb:
>>
>> Well, yes and no. JPEG is a lossy format (it's designed that way), but I 
>> find it by far and away the most convenient when working on graphics 
>> destined for web pages. Any implication that it's not a worthy format to 
>> be supported by POV-Ray makes me a tad nervous. I think it should find 
>> its way into the documentation, with a warning that it's not a loss-free 
>> format and that the results will unavoidably contain JPEG artifacts. 
>> People could then simply use another format for any process that requires 
>> some sort of top quality master.
>
> I think the rationale behind deliberately hiding this feature is that for 
> it to come anywhere close to being /useful/, some more work would need to 
> be invested; the default quality would have to be increased, and ideally a 
> quality parameter would have to be added.

Ahh! Well I first learned about it on these newsgroups years ago, so I don't 
think I've let a secret slip that wasn't already out there.

I don't know the POV source, d'you think that would be a big 
investment/change?  Is the JPEG compression just a standard codec library 
call at the end of the render?

Regards,
Chris B.

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