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isbnthedailygrind
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 Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: Digital Image Conversion |
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Is there any software out there that will capture the binary code (the 0's and 1's sequence) of a digital image to copy and paste into a text document to reduce size for sending over the internet to be "puzzled back together" on the other end into the original image?
I may/or may not be off on my terminology and it probably sounds stupid what I'm looking for. |
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Copying and pasting into a text document will not reduce the size of an image. The binary code is the same size as the image regardless of whether it is a text document or not. If you want to reduce the size of your images you can load and resize them in an image editor or for example convert them from bitmaps to jpegs. If you don't want to convert the bitmaps you could also compress them with an archiver like Winzip. |
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TRUSTAbyss
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:20 am Post subject: |
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Or you can use PNG , In my opinion is the smallest compression in the world.
Check http://www.snapfiles.com for a Image Compression program. LateR! |
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately, Internet Explorer's PNG support is *terrible* |
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TRUSTAbyss
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:07 am Post subject: |
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Internet Explorer will still display PNG's in its browser as long as the server
is configured to show .png files , you just get download prompts when you
try to view one directly , overall PNG is a good choice for compression. |
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k1ll3rdr4g0n
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:17 am Post subject: |
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Acctually I did a test to see if png or gif had a higher commpression gif won.
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TRUSTAbyss
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| Send me both images and I can prove to you that PNG would win. LateR! |
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olly86
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Each to his own!
| W3C wrote: | For the Web, PNG really has three main advantages over GIF:
alpha channels (variable transparency),
cross-platform gamma correction (control of image brightness) and color correction
two-dimensional interlacing (a method of progressive display).
PNG also compresses better than GIF in almost every case (5% to 25% in typical cases). |
Full article: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif
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omaronly
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| Something close to what you're looking for would be a php function base64(). Many other languages have such a feature as well. It turns the binary data into text characters. It is usually used to transmit binary files over the net. BUT, it will not decrease the size of binary files. |
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Anonymoose wrote: | | Unfortunately, Internet Explorer's PNG support is *terrible* |
Internet explorer? Grow up! |
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Anonymoose
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Well that was worth digging up a 2 month dead topic for.
I was pointing out that there is little point in using PNG just because the format is better when 85% of browsers are still IE and will fail to support them properly. |
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aprelium-beta
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Internet Explorer has a problem with PNG transparency only. So you can still use PNG unless you need support for transparent backgrounds (which is the reason why the console images in version 2.0 have been converted to GIF.)
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AbyssUnderground
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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PNG is only lossless compression, meaning the quality wont get reduced.
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