No, no.. 100 people * 1000 images = 100000 images.. hehe
I was just putting some scale to it.

But why should you post a 200k image when you with a small
effort could post a 40k image? That's my point.

/Stefan

"Aaron Gillies" <no### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
news:3f4b667b$1@news.povray.org...
> Hmm ...
>
> I have no problem with PNG, but I have been reluctant to use
> it, because I was not sure that everyone could view the images.
>
> Yes, yes ... 1000 images.  But the fact is, there can be as few
> as zero images posted to this list every day, and rarely more than
> five or six.
>
> Maybe the best idea is to simply go back to making sure that
> the attachment size is in the subject line of the e-mail and give
> people on the list the choice of downloading or not.  It seems actually
> quite rare that someone posts an image greater than 200k to the
> list and if it's really big, someone will let them know that it's
> causing problems.
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
>
> "Stefan Persson" <azy### [at] teliacom> wrote in message
> news:3f4b64e4@news.povray.org...
> > The following images was converted with Adobe ImageReady from the
original
> > PNG-output from POV-Ray.
> > I just want to show the difference in size from the 24-bit PNG to the
> > "Medium quality" JPG.
> > Give or take some decimals the PNG is 209 KiB and the "Medium" JPG is
37,4
> > KiB.
> > That is roughly a 82% reduction in size with only a slight loss in
> quality.
> > You could even go for the
> > no loss quality (HIGH, 100 or whatever setting your program has) and
still
> > get a 42% reduction.
> > Let's say we post a 100 images and 1000 people download them. With no
> > compression
> > that is, with my example above, that is something like 20 GiB. Compress
> and
> > you will get
> > 3.5 GiB. Worth the trouble, isn't it?
> >
> > Of course this is image dependent with nature type of images suffering
> less
> > than others.
> > The "Low quality" JPG was posted just as a reference but even here I
have
> > problems with spotting
> > any severe compression artefacts.
> >
> > What I'm really after here is that it's not necessary to post a high
> quality
> > image when you want to
> > show a WIP. I can accept a full size image when it's finished but not
> > before.
> >
> > I use a 2Mbit connection so I don't really have a problem, but I think
> it's
> > for everyones good to reduce the size.
> > Like mentioned earlier in the thread, not only it reduces the space on
the
> > server but it also cuts down traffic.
> >
> >
> > /Stefan
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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