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What is better BMP or JPG?
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From
23/03/2009 09:04:56
 
 
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23/03/2009 08:30:11
Metin Emre
Ozcom Bilgisayar Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01390071
Message ID:
01390573
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73
>>>BMP has zero quality failure, so it has better look.
>>
>>Better than what? JPG can use different level of compression and look not worse than BMP. It all depends on requirements. There're also GIF and PNG formats that use lossless compression.
>
>BMP is a raw format. Professional cameras support raw format because of zero compress-zero loss.
>
>I prefer jpeg if I'm creating a customer photo database because of storage problems.
>
>But I prefer bmp for my application or my customers logos, signatures because there isn't any storage problem for these.

Metin,

BMPs are recommended only for really small images, smaller than 25x25 pixels.
For storage and quality purposes, PNGs and GIFs are the best option.

GIFs offer a great result, if the image contains up to 256 colors.

As Sergey said, it all depends on the purpose you need.

Regards

Cesar
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