lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> I have a slightly OT question: is it reasonable that PNG versions of
> an image may be bigger than their GIF equivalent and (less
> sursprisingly) much bigger than their JPEG versions?  I have not
> tested this theory, but I have had this reported to me.
I don't know if I understood correctly your question, but although GIF
uses LZW instead of zlib (LZ77 iirc), it can stand only for 256
different colors - hence it my be smaller than PNG, as PNG allows 32bit
colors fine (being 8 for alpha). JPEG is dependant on lossy compression
(at least the actual implementations; I think a lossless was proposed,
but I've never seen it), then sure it can be much smaller than PNG.