DEFLATE
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| − | [[DEFLATE]] is a widely used lossless compression algorithm. For many software implementations that support creation or extraction of [[ZIP]] archive files, DEFLATE is the only compression algorithm supported. It is also used by [[gzip]] and [[PNG]]. | + | [[DEFLATE]] is a widely used lossless compression algorithm. For many software implementations that support creation or extraction of [[ZIP]] archive files, DEFLATE is the only compression algorithm supported. It is also used by [[gzip]] and [[PNG]]. The [[PDF]] specification permits a variety of compression schemes, including DEFLATE, which is tagged as FlateDecode. |
== References == | == References == | ||
* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3] | * [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE DEFLATE : Wikipedia] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE DEFLATE : Wikipedia] | ||
