Breakthrough In JPEG Compression
Slashdot reader Kris_J writes “The makers of the (classic) compression package Stuffit have written a program that can compress JPGs by roughly 30%.
This isn’t the raw image to JPG compression, this is lossless compression applied to the JPG file. Typical compression rates for JPGs are 2% to -1%. If you read the whitepaper (PDF), they are even proposing a new image format; StuffIt Image Format (SIF). Now I just need someone to write a SIF compressor for my old Kodak DC260.”
