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The Black Ice
Printer Drivers can convert any printable file into a variety of
formats, including JPEG.
Printer Driver Overview
Joint
Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is one of the most popular
file formats for storing 8 and 24 bit continuous tone grayscale
and color images (which makes it one of the more popular web
graphic formats).
JPEG is a standardized image compression mechanism designed for
compressing either full-color or gray-scale images. It works
well on photographs, artwork, and similar material. However, it
does not work as well on lettering, simple cartoons, or line
drawings. JPEG works by exploiting known limitations of the
human eye, notably the fact that small color changes are
perceived less accurately than small changes in brightness.
JPEG is
lossy but it achieves much greater compression than is possible
with lossless methods. A major disadvantage of lossy compression
is that repeated compression and decompression will continue to
deteriorate image quality. The amount of "loss" can be varied by
adjusting compression parameters that determine image quality
and speed of decoding. This means that image size is offset by
image quality or the amount of time needed to decode the image
file for display. JPEG does not support transparency.
The highly
efficient JPEG compression modes are:
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Non-differential Huffman coding
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Differential Huffman coding
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Non-differential arithmetic coding
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Differential arithmetic coding
JPEG support is
included in the following Black Ice printer drivers:
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