[Coco] Re: M.E.S.S. Printing

[John Guin]

I thought another reason GIF lost popularity to JPG was JPGs were "lossy"
and could be compressed, but GIF was locked into "only" 256 colors and no
compression.  All the licensing for GIF didn't help (and helped put my
wife's company out of business, but that's another story).

I may be wrong...

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:16 AM
Subject: [Coco] Re: M.E.S.S. Printing


> KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 12/19/03 6:10:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wb8tyw at qsl.net
> > writes:
> >
> >>Of course I am more interested in open formats instead of proprietary
> >> formats.
> >
> > Well, apparently there are books available which document GIF and BMP
> > standards, which means they're not really proprietary.
>
> BMP is pretty much an open format, as are most of the simple bit map
> storage modes.  GIF was very popular until Compuserve tried to sue and
> collect royalties on their patent, at which point it appears that a
> large number of sites totally banned GIFs to prevent being liable for
> the royalties.
>
> > Open formats are nice, but that pretty much sticks you with Linux, while
in
> > the real world we have to deal with getting stuff done in Windows or
(talk
> > about proprietary non-standards) Mac.
>
> For COCO work, most of the simpler well known formats would probably
> work.  PDF is way too complex for storing COCO images, aside from it
> being an Adobe proprietary format.
>
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only
>
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