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Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff [message #27579 is a reply to message #27554]

Thu, 25 October 2001 21:05

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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From: "Mark Chan" <markchan@shaw.ca>
> v5.5 comes with a form to request for JPEG and TIFF support.

That's GIF and TIFF, isn't it? JPEG works fine OOTB.

> Questions:
>
> 1) Has anyone find out how much the licensing costs?

Not me. I imagine it would depend on what you were going to do with the
images. You have to negotiate with Unisys, not RSI, to get the license. I
should think that would be a royal pain.

> 2) Is it worth it?

I very much doubt it.

> 3) Better alternative(s) for achieving the same?

PNG for still images. It's widely supported these days and technically
superior to GIF.

For animation there are several alternatives that have been discussed on
this group. I like FLC, though it's limited to 8-bit colour.

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		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: newt on Sun, 28 October 2001 14:28
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 28 October 2001 12:26
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: wmconnolley on Sun, 28 October 2001 09:14
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: Joseph B. Gurman on Sat, 27 October 2001 21:39
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: A. D. & J.C. Cool on Sat, 27 October 2001 20:18
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: nobody@nowhere.com (S on Fri, 26 October 2001 12:20
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 25 October 2001 21:05
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: wmconnolley on Mon, 29 October 2001 08:08

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