MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Sat Dec 10 11:39:14 CST 2005
If you are into Jpeg compression have a look at djvu format It will compress say 32 Meg Tiff to 600K jpeg to 70k djvu Also compresses pdf and handles images and text separately It separates an image into a background layer (i.e., paper texture and pictures) and foreground layer (text and line drawings). A lot of universities and NGO's are using for archival material It's use got held up because of lawyer screw up when released to open source by ATT Labs about 6 or 7 years back. Now they have their act together. . http://www.djvu.org/wid/index.html Josh McFarlane wrote: >On 12/10/05, Joe Hecht <jmhecht at earthlink.net> wrote: > > >>I know some of you roll your own tools. (Looking towards JC) >> >> >> >>Having no life on a Friday night, how many of you buy, use >>or otherwise acquire development tools. >> >> > >Depends on the size of the tool for us. > >For example (outside of Access): > >Recursive directory searching - Rolled ourselves. >JPEG Image Compression - Intel IPP Library >TCP/IP Library - Made myself because I got a little too ambitious. >Looking back might have bought. >Digital Camera API Library - Bought from Camera Manufacturer. > >I generally look at it as if it is going to cost at least half of what >it costs to buy it for me to just program it, then might as well buy >it, as when debugging comes around, it'll probably end up being the >same, and their library will be more stable. > >-- >Josh McFarlane > >"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." >-Albert Einstein > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada