JPEG
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'''JPEG''', named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the format, is a lossy compressed format well-suited to photographic images. Line drawings do better with non-lossy compressed bitmaps such as [[GIF]] and [[PNG]]. | '''JPEG''', named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the format, is a lossy compressed format well-suited to photographic images. Line drawings do better with non-lossy compressed bitmaps such as [[GIF]] and [[PNG]]. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG JPEG (Wikipedia) | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG JPEG (Wikipedia)] |
* [http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf JPEG standard] | * [http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf JPEG standard] | ||
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JPEG, named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the format, is a lossy compressed format well-suited to photographic images. Line drawings do better with non-lossy compressed bitmaps such as GIF and PNG.
