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- >Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.announce
- >From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
- >Date: Sat, 02 Sep 95 18:46:42 +0400
- >Subject: jpegsrc6.zip/jpeg6.zip - JPEG compression/decompression
- >Message-ID: <306985637@f218.n5020.z2.ftn>
-
- I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm),
- (available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site ftp.coast.net
- and the secondary mirrors of SimTel):
-
- ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/graphics/jpegsrc6.zip
- ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/graphics/jpeg6.zip
- ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/graphics/jpeg6386.zip
-
- SimTel/msdos/graphics/
- jpegsrc6.zip Source code for JPEG compression/decompression
- jpeg6.zip Convert JPEG files to/from BMP,GIF,PPM,PGM,TGA
- jpeg6386.zip Faster version of jpeg6.zip for 386 or better
-
- These files are source and DOS executables for release 6 of the
- Independent JPEG Group's free JPEG image compression code. The IJG code
- includes a reusable JPEG compression/decompression library, plus sample
- applications "cjpeg" and "djpeg", which perform conversion between JPEG
- JFIF format and image files in PPM/PGM (PBMPLUS), GIF, BMP, and Targa
- formats. A third application "jpegtran" provides lossless transcoding
- between different JPEG formats --- for example, it can convert a baseline
- JPEG file to an equivalent progressive JPEG file. Two small applications
- "wrjpgcom" and "rdjpgcom" insert and extract textual comments in JFIF
- files.
-
- The principal improvement in version 6 is support of progressive JPEG.
- Progressive JPEG allows an image to be stored in multiple scans of
- increasing quality. The initial scan provides a low-resolution image in
- very little storage space, typically perhaps 10% of the total file.
- Additional scans improve the quality, with the final image being exactly
- equivalent to a baseline JPEG file of the same quality setting. The
- total space required is about the same as for the equivalent baseline
- JPEG file (or even a little less).
-
- We expect that progressive JPEG will prove extremely popular on the
- World Wide Web, and in any other situation where an image is to be
- viewed as it is received over a slow communications link. For images
- for which JPEG is appropriate (photos and such), progressive JPEG far
- surpasses interlaced GIF in both total transmission time and the visual
- appearance of the image refinement sequence.
-
- The new IJG library provides full support for performing progressive
- display of an incoming file. If an application does not require
- progressive rendering, only recovery of the final image, then no changes
- to IJG v5-using code are required: just recompile with the new library
- to be able to read progressive-JPEG files.
-
- jpeg6.zip is a "vanilla" version for any DOS machine. jpeg6386.zip is
- a faster 32-bit version; it will run only on 386 or better CPUs with at
- least 1Mb extended or expanded memory. Source code is provided in
- jpegsrc6.zip.
-
- jpegsrc6.zip, jpeg6.zip and jpeg6386.zip have replaced
- jpgsrc5a.zip, jpg5a.zip and jpg5a386.zip respectively.
-
- Please direct any questions about this software to jpeg-info@uunet.uu.net.
-
- Free. Uploaded by the principal author.
-
- Tom Lane
- organizer, Independent JPEG Group
- tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
-