> Would it make sense to be able to store jpgs as jpgs ? Sure, it would
> make lot of sense. Would I welcome this in AbiWord ? Yes, I certainly
> would. Is it a really serious problem not being able to do so ? I do not
> believe it is, as I think inserting hi-resolution photographs into a
> word-processing document is rarely necessary
You haven't met users then. Your mom never sent you pictures of vacation
in a word document? [1] Believe me, this is a more common use case than
one might
> (BTW, normal embedded systems use a compressed file system on the flash,
> so there is no advantage of insisting on using gzipped file format; to
> the contrary, you end up doing a nearly useless round of
> compression-decompression).
Information theory 101.
For information
The PNG
-rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 251473 2005-08-29 18:02 troll.png
The version in JPEG
-rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 59527 2006-02-17 14:59 troll.jpg
The JPEG in gzip
-rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 59485 2007-05-07 19:22 troll.jpg.gz
The JPEG in bzip2
-rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 59860 2007-05-07 19:23 troll.jpg.bz2
The PNG is gzip
-rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 251495 2007-05-07 19:22 troll.png.gz
The PNG is bzip2
-rw-r--r-- 1 hub hub 252729 2007-05-07 19:23 troll.png.bz2
Shall I say more about compressing PNG or JPEG ?
Hub
[1] the other case is in a PowerPoint file.
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