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Subject: [9fans] why is image(6) compression so poor?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:50:31 +0000
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i recently observed that when writing a 500x500 all-white RGB24 image
in image(6) format, compressed, the resulting file is 45295 bytes.

gif compression, on the other hand, gives a file of 1689 bytes...

is this a bug, or a limitation of the compression scheme?