[sdiy] sdiy(s) and..question on XNview

[Andre Majorel]

On 2010-02-19 16:05 -0700, Bob Weigel wrote:

> anyone familiar with xnview..I noted I finally used it last night.
> But I notice that approx. 3.5M of Jpeg got turned into 23M of file!
> What's up with that?  Does anyone know if there is a way to shrink
> it any?

Something's wrong. PostScript has had native support for JPEG
compression for at least 10 years (see DCTdecode in the PostScript
language reference). Looks like xnview has decompressed the JPEG
data and included the resulting image in the output, with no or
inefficient compression.

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/