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<li><em>To</em>: Roman Maurer &lt;<A HREF="mailto:roman.maurer@hermes.si">roman.maurer@hermes.si</A>&gt;</li>
<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: More graphics questions</li>
<li><em>From</em>: Poet/Joshua Drake &lt;<A HREF="mailto:poet@linuxports.com">poet@linuxports.com</A>&gt;</li>
<li><em>Date</em>: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:40:59 -0700 (PDT)</li>
<li><em>Cc</em>: &quot;Anthony E. Greene&quot; &lt;<A HREF="mailto:agreene@pobox.com">agreene@pobox.com</A>&gt;, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-docbook@lists.debian.org">ldp-docbook@lists.debian.org</A></li>
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Hello,
We should accept the following and only the following formats:
1. Gif
2. JPG
3. EPS (for the postcript output)
I don't like gif anymore than the next guy, so use JPG.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Roman Maurer wrote:
&lt;CITE&gt;&quot;Anthony E. Greene&quot; wrote:
&lt;CITE&gt;&gt;
&lt;CITE&gt;&gt; Some versions of IE4 cannot display a PNG image by itself.
&lt;CITE&gt;
&lt;CITE&gt;What versions or IE4?
&lt;CITE&gt;
&lt;CITE&gt;IMHO the format LDP uses in HTML documents should be &quot;good-old&quot;
&lt;CITE&gt;(and unfortunately patented) GIF.
&lt;CITE&gt;
&lt;CITE&gt;The usability of documentation should not be dictated by technology
&lt;CITE&gt;nor by politics. JPEG is bad because it looses data and PNG is bad
&lt;CITE&gt;because not everyone will see it(?).
&lt;CITE&gt;
&lt;CITE&gt;So, my suggestion is to take a deep breath, buy some GIF compression
&lt;CITE&gt;utility (xv comes to mind) and make the GIFs for the docs. That way
&lt;CITE&gt;end-users will be happy, and the authors won't need to pretend that
&lt;CITE&gt;we have a good-for-all substitute for GIFs (someday this will be PNG,
&lt;CITE&gt;but obviously we're not there yet!).
&lt;CITE&gt;
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