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Open Source Used In Cisco IPICS Server 4.9(1) 2473

one of the original reasons for developing this free software was to help

force convergence on common, open format standards for JPEG files. Don't

use a proprietary file format!

TO DO

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The major thrust for v7 will probably be improvement of visual quality.

The current method for scaling the quantization tables is known not to be

very good at low Q values. We also intend to investigate block boundary

smoothing, "poor man's variable quantization", and other means of improving

quality-vs-file-size performance without sacrificing compatibility.

In future versions, we are considering supporting some of the upcoming JPEG

Part 3 extensions --- principally, variable quantization and the SPIFF file

format.

As always, speeding things up is of great interest.

Please send bug reports, offers of help, etc. to jpeg-info@uunet.uu.net.

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