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Re: is there any support for stuffit ? [turn into \"jpg compression in Stuffit\" ? ]


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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 29 May 2007 19:06, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Mike Marchywka wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I just got a sit file and didn't know if there is any support for this.
>>> Do I have to go download the mfg's free trial or is there a cygwin
>>> tool for this?
>> I'm half-tempted to release a Cygwin:stuffit package that doesn't do
>> anything (with just "WJM" in the README)... :-)
>>
>> SCNR.
>> 	Igor
> 
>   ROFL!  I just went to the stuffit expander web page, and one of the
> aaaaamazing new features they're hyping is
> 
> " Losslessly compress JPEG files with no loss in quality"
> 
>   Well, yeh, I understand it's /technically/ true, but they should really say
> 
> " Losslessly compress JPEG files with no *more* loss in quality than the
> massive loss in quality that you got by converting them to JPEGs in the first
> place ... "
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

well DUuUuUUh. if you put JPG files in ANY compressed format they are
_by_definition_ no more lossy than before.

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Morgan Gangwere

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