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In article <090720141611333741%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> > > PNG was annoying for some people because Firefox didn't support it for
> > > some time. It is a *far* superior format to pict or tiff.
> > 
> > Yep. I always considered PDF to be a very strange default choice.
> 
> Mac OS X's default print format is Postscript / PDF, so it's also the
> default choice for the screen capture because it basically prints the
> screen.

the graphics in mac os x is based on pdf, so making the screen shot use
that format was trivial.

pdf is not just printing and there is no postscript.

> PNG is a horrible image format that takes longer to decompress 

nonsense.

> and has
> bigger files than JPEG. 

png is lossless and jpeg is lossy.

lossless is going to be bigger than lossy.

> TIFF without compression is much better,

not necessarily, and they're much, much bigger than either png or jpeg.

> especially for print use.

no. you can't see a difference with a high quality jpeg versus tiff in
print or on screen for that matter.

> Websites that insist on using PNG format
> images take much longer to download and display via a dial-up
> connection.

that's because they're bigger. however, png can do things jpegs can't,
such as transparency.

it would also be a *lot* worse if they were tif.

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Re: Printscreen gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-07 09:28 -0700
  Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 13:35 -0400
    Re: Printscreen Steve <gratefuldead@xs4all.nl> - 2014-07-07 19:55 +0200
      Re: Printscreen Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-08 09:26 +1200
        Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 18:04 -0400
          Re: Printscreen gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-07 17:38 -0700
            Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 20:58 -0400
              Re: Printscreen Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-07-08 07:51 +0200
                Re: Printscreen Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-08 15:42 +0000
                Re: Printscreen Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-09 00:34 +0000
                Re: Printscreen Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-09 01:53 +0000
                Re: Printscreen Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-09 16:11 +1200
                Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-09 00:23 -0400
                Re: Printscreen Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-09 05:21 +0000
            Re: Printscreen Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-08 13:27 +1200
              Re: Printscreen nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-07 21:46 -0400
            Re: Printscreen Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-08 05:43 +0000
  Re: Printscreen Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-07-07 20:22 +0000
    Re: Printscreen gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-07 14:20 -0700

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