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On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:28:59 -0500, Mike <Ama### [at] aol com> wrote:
>The long and short of it for me is that you will never get the
>compression of JPEG out of PNG. While LWZ compression can cut a file in
>half, a JPEG file can reduce it by a factor of 10 or more without too
>much artifacting. If more projects like the IMP start to show up, some
>kind of compression scheme is going to be essential.
PNG doesn't use LZW compression (no sane person would, these days).
It uses Huffman compression, after performing a DCT to get the data
into the frequency domain.
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