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Subject:RE: Screen shot formats in Frame to WW2KK From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- ILE -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:12:07 -0600
Tristan writes:
> What is the ideal screen format-mapping combination from Frame through
> Webworks into HTML? BMP to GIF? TIFF to JPEG? WMF to PNG? There's so
> many options it's hard to know.
>
One word of warning--WWP has a bug that causes bitmapped graphics in
anchored frames to appear streaked after conversion. This bug was supposed
to have been fixed with the lastest patch, but I still see the probelm on
occasion.
Other than that, the ideal output depends on the composition of the original
image. If you have mostly line art or images with large areas with solid
color, GIF or PNG should be fine. Images with gradients, photographs, or the
like look better as JPEGs.
Bill Burns - Eccentric Technology Consultant
International Communications Design & Development
billdb -at- ile -dot- com
Y2K Complacent
