[Lowfer] Re: Picture file conversion problem

Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:11:14 -0400

Well I installed the Plug in fer the browser
and now need a sample to see if it works  HAR

http://www.berkana.com/tower.php3

this should enable you to check for towers in your area
although it didnt list the York Airport on 254 Khz  

Bob


On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:12:45 -0500 "Peter Barick"
<[email protected]> writes:
>>>> [email protected] 06/06/02 11:58AM >>>
>
>Have a look at DjVU. Don't remember off-hand the URL, but
>Google will surely be of help. Nothing beats it for B/W compression.
>And it is free.
>
>73  Alberto  I2PHD
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>
>I found this at the DjVu home site.
>http://www.djvuzone.org/ 
>
>"DjVu] ... 10 times better than existing methods such as JPEG and GIF
>for color documents, and 3 to 8 times than TIFF for black and white
>documents. Scanned pages at 300 DPI in full color can be compressed 
>down
>to 30 to 100KB files from 25MB.. Black-and-white pages at 300 DPI
>typically occupy 5 to 30KB when compressed. This puts the size of
>high-quality scanned pages within the realm of an average HTML page
>(which is typically around 50KB)."
>
>First i've heard of this format. I haven't tried it. Possibly others
>can.
>
>Peter
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