Scanning Formats (TIFF vs. JPEG)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 8/16/2006 at 3:33 PM Segin wrote:

>Why won't we jusr all switch to PNG, which is lossless, and don't give 
>me that "PNG is lossy" crap, otherwise everytime I untar a .tar.gz 
>archive i should have lots of missing bits in my source code, because 
>PNG uses the exact same alghorithm found in PKZIP and gzip.

Excuse me?  I don't think anyone said PNG is lossy, did they?  IIRC, PNG
was developed as an alternative to GIF (which is also lossless).  My remark
about JPEG being lossy was, I believe, valid.

The only problem I can see with PNG is some older software doesn't support
it, where TIFF and GIF support's been around for a very long time.  But
there's always conversion software, if need be.

Cheers,
Chuck