About .jpg

[Stuart Thiessen]

Sorry!  That is an (American?) English abbreviation for For Your
Information.  Is there a German equivalent I can learn?  <grin>

L.I.F.E,

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Woehrmann [mailto:stefanwoehrmann at gebaerdenschrift.de] 
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:38
> To: smt_sw at earthlink.net
> Subject: AW: About .jpg
> 
> 
> Hi Stuart ,
> 
> what is  FYI ??
> 
> Stefan ;-)
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: SignWriting List [mailto:SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]Im Auftrag von
> Stuart Thiessen
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2003 18:54
> An: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Betreff: Re: About .jpg
> 
> 
> A useful format that was designed to take the place of .gif 
> is .png.  It may
> be possible to find something simple that would make that 
> conversion.  Many
> who protest the restrictions on .gif have switched to .png.
> 
> FYI,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SignWriting List [mailto:SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA] On
> > Behalf Of Valerie Sutton
> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:02
> > To: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> > Subject: Re: About .jpg
> >
> >
> > SignWriting List
> > October 2, 2003
> >
> > Dear SW List, Nana, Sandy, Daniel...
> > You are right that GIFs are better for SignWriting
> > diagrams...But maybe
> > Nana doesn't own a graphics program that can create a GIF?
> > They are not
> > as common as you would think, actually...
> >
> > So what are the programs on Windows that can create the GIF format?
> > Photoshop (which costs a lot of money)....Perhaps CorelDraw?
> > That costs
> > money too...any free programs that you know of?
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 07:10 AM, Sandy Fleming wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Daniel, and everybody!
> > >
> > > I notice Nana ignored my advice and did save it as .jpg, 
> though  :)
> > >
> > > To illustrate the point, if you open Nana's .jpg in a
> > graphics editor
> > > and
> > > zoom in closely, you'll see a lot of grey pixels around the black
> > > lines.
> > > This is due to having edited and saved it as a .jpg.
> > >
> > > It may not look too bad now, but if people edited it a 
> lot, it would
> > > get
> > > gradally worse.
> > >
> > > So use .gif for SignWriting!  :)
> > >
> > > Sandy
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: SignWriting List [mailto:SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]On
> > Behalf Of
> > >> Daniel Noelpp
> > >> Sent: 02 October 2003 14:11
> > >> To: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> > >> Subject: About .jpg
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Hello Sandy
> > >>
> > >> About the .jpg format you did an excellent job explaining it,
> > >> but I need to explain why .jpg "ignores" some information.
> > >>
> > >> Sandy wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> If you do use .jpg, you'll find that smudging creeps into the
> > >> image if you
> > >>> edit it, because the .jpg format works by ignoring some of the
> > >> information
> > >>> in the image - it loses a little information every time you
> > >> change it. The
> > >>> ..gif format keeps all information, so your SignWriting
> > will remain
> > >>> crystal clear no matter how many times you edit the image!
> > >>
> > >> When storing a .jpg the colors in the picture are transformed
> > >> in a spectrum. This is a mathematical representation to make
> > >> compression easier. Now the funny part is that not the whole
> > >> spectrum is saved. You even can tell Photoshop or many
> > >> other software how much of the spectrum you want to save
> > >> (as a slider or as a percent value). The better quality you have,
> > >> the larger the file will be.
> > >>
> > >> This is a very clever trick because the smudging is almost
> > >> inperceptible for photographic pictures. DVDs use a very
> > >> similar trick to encode movies.
> > >>
> > >> So I hope you don't object to this small lesson even if the
> > >> subject doesn't relate to SignWriting directly. Sandy is right:
> > >> Don't use .jpg to save SignWriting texts!
> > >>
> > >> Cheers!
> > >> Daniel
> > >>
> > >
> >
> 
>