RE: Need help on the quick start guide

[Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Donovan Rebbechi wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Sharp, Lee wrote:
> 
> > will be a vi free zone. :-)  >  One oddness, I can not get KSnapshot to
> > save jpegs...  Anyone know why before I devote way to much time to
> > figuring it out? :-)
> 
> The JPEG compression algorithm usually incurs some loss of image quality.
> OTOH, the compression algorithm that the gif uses is lossless. Of course,
> you could always convert the GIF to a JPEG using some graphics program.
> But for a screenshot, you probably wouldn't want to.

But if the screen is 24 bit, the gif would be lossy, since it will dither 
to 8bit.

How about png?

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