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Re: Browser-friendly text image compression

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Doug Cooper wrote:

>For some reason I'm having trouble tracking down a
>bi-level image compression format that:
>
>-- performs at Fax 4 or better,
>-- is either lossy _or_ non-lossy (but isn't jpeg).
>-- can be decompressed by typical browers.
>
>Anybody out there using JBIG or JBIG2, or a tiff/Fax4 
>decompression plug-in?
>

I don't know if this is helpful for you, but for small B&W images I use
GIF with a 1bit pallette.
Image sizes are fairly small, quality is good.
Just created a sample of text with the GIMP.  Using non-antialiased text
before doing the 1bit conversion greatly improved text quality.

http://www.thc-tsg.com/temp.gif

Image stats:
wxh, 220x140 pixels
72dpi
1512 bytes   

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