In article <3fb016bc$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Actually, the JPEG specification also allows a lossless compression, but
> hardly anybody supports it.  Of course, there would be no gain in compressed
> result size over other formats.  More to the contrary :-(

That's interesting...the pages I read about JPEG2000 implied that it was 
a completely new addition. Looks like it about halves file sizes...PNG 
is probably far better.
This page appears to have some good information:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/

Specifically, #13: "Isn't there a lossless JPEG?"

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