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Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows

From -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows
Date 2024-12-22 16:58 -0500
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On 12/22/24 4:26 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:14:29 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
> <pan$b93c0$1f07acd8$927f2cd1$a6f91cce@linux.rocks>:
> 
>> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
>> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files?  I sure as fuck do.
>>
>> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
>> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text.  But that
>> doesn't stop the digital idiots.

Where the assumption is that because PNG is lossless, absence of 
compression artifacts is more noticeable in cartoonish graphics, so its 
worth the trade of larger file sizes.

>> However, FOSS has an answer:
>>
>> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
>>
>>  From the link:
>>
>> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved as
>> JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."
>>
>> I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.
>>
>> Man oh man!  These FOSS people are always right on top of it!
>>
>> Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.
>>
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
> 
> Now I know you're an anti-Linux troll.

Feeb's merely just a decade or so behind the times...


> There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.
> 
> ImageMagick-im6.q16(General Commands ManuImageMagick-im6.q16(1)
> 
> NAME
>         ImageMagick - is a free software suite for the creation,
>         modification and display of bitmap images.
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>         convert-im6.q16 input-file [options] output-file
> 
> OVERVIEW
>         Use ImageMagick® to create, edit,  compose,  or  convert
>         bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety
>         of formats (over 200) including PNG,  JPEG,  GIF,  HEIC,
>         TIFF,  DPX,  EXR,  WebP,  Postscript,  PDF, and SVG. Use
>         ImageMagick to resize, flip,  mirror,  rotate,  distort,
>         shear  and  transform images, adjust image colors, apply
>         various special effects, or draw text, lines,  polygons,
>         ellipses and B\['e]zier curves.
> 
>         The  functionality  of ImageMagick is typically utilized
>         from the command-line or you can use the  features  from
>         programs  written in your favorite language. Choose from
>         these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C),  MagickWand
>         (C),  ChMagick  (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++
>         (C++), JMagick (Java), JuliaIO (Julia), L-Magick (Lisp),
>         Lua  (LuaJIT),  NMagick  (Neko/haXe), Magick.NET (.NET),
>         PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for
>         PHP  (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), magick
>         (R), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a  lan‐
>         guage interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create im‐
>         ages dynamically and automagically.
> * * *
> (
> My distro has version 6.  I see now that there is a version 7:
> 
>     https://imagemagick.org/
> )

Nice to see that it supports HEIC.


-hh

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Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-22 19:14 +0000
  Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-22 15:25 -0500
  Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-22 21:26 +0000
    Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2024-12-22 16:58 -0500
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-22 22:08 +0000
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-22 22:14 +0000
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-23 08:06 +0000
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 13:11 -0600
    Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 01:25 +0000
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 05:59 +0000
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-23 08:40 +0000
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 07:50 -0500
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 13:53 -0500
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-24 09:08 +0000
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 07:43 -0500
    Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2024-12-23 13:43 +0000
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-23 10:00 -0500
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-27 05:42 +0000
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-27 07:52 -0500
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-27 15:13 +0000
              Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Dimdows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-27 11:25 -0500
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-23 14:01 -0500
        Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-23 21:34 +0000
          Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-24 07:58 -0500
            Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-25 12:27 +0000
              Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-25 10:49 -0500
      Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 13:14 -0600
  Re: Another Great FOSS Software. Never On Winblows Nick Charles - 2024-12-22 16:52 -0500

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