Posted by Al Camp on 07/31/05 17:12

Thanks Richard,
I noticed that it was the text that suffered in jpg. I may just
"graphic" my logo, and use text for the "subtitle" text portion of my logo.
Thanks,
Al Camp

"rf" <@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> Al Camp wrote:
>
>> As to the image, it was originally a jpeg, but I had problems with the
>> clarity of the display.
>
> ... because jpeg uses a lossy compression format, really meant for images.
> It doesn't matter if a great deal if image detail is lost, you don't see
> it
> anyway. Not so with pictures of text. Loose some detail and nasty
> artifacts
> creep in around the straight lines.
>
> The correct format for your images of text is PNG or GIF. Both are
> non-lossy
> and give reasonable compression. Because you only have a small number of
> colours a GIF might be most appropriate.
>
> Cheers
> Richard.
>
>

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