From: Chris Pine <cpine@...>
Date: 2004-02-22T23:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Graphic file formats

Hello,

I recently started using RMagick and I *love* it.  I think it only runs on
Linux (not sure), so I hope that's not a problem.  I just grabbed them both
from portage on gentoo and they work great!

At first I started using PNGs to save my images.  (It's for a family picture
website, so I'm scaling down the pictures from huge, printable sizes to
reasonable sizes, and also generating thumbnails.)  They looked great, but
were kind of large (a problem for some of my relatives with slower
connection speeds).  So I tried jpg, and they still look pretty damn good.
Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to change the compression level,
but fortunately they default to a pretty good balance between size and image
quality (unlike GIMP, which defaults to "more artifacts than Egypt, but in
15k or less!")

Chris