On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:37:51AM +1000, Peter wrote: >In the save as, there is a DCT method that says it is a trade off >between speed and quality. On an 800 MHz AMD chip, speed does not seem >to be a problem so which of the three settings gives the best quality? `Floating-point' gives _theoretically_ best quality, but in practice it is non-distinguishable from `integer' (although the images sometimes seem to become a _few_ bytes smaller). Integer is usually a bit quicker, unless you have real fast FP hardware, BTW... `Fast integer' is faster than `integer' (naturally), but gives worse quality. And -- you might notice the difference if working on a _large_ image. ;-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/
