Keith, at 18:41 on Jul 20 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Brenton's JPG of Belinda was originally 100 x 208 resolution (rather small 
BG> on an 800 x 600 display), so I upsized it by a factor of four, then printed 
BG> it on my bubblejet, and the result (which is still stuck on the side of the 
BG> fridge) was quite acceptable, albeit a tad blocky close-up.

KR> depends on the the original artwork and the amount of compression, the
KR> less the compression the more that you can blow it up.

Fair enough, that sounds quite logical.

KR> hopefully, with this packet, i'll upload jpgtest.zip to specialr on tml. it 
KR> has a gif and several jpgs of the same photo. for my money, the jpegs look 
KR> as good or better than the gif, and, while the gif is 97336 bytes, the 
KR> jpegs range from 78861 down to 17667 bytes. 

I'll grab that off-peak, and check it out with PMJpeg.

KR> i don't know what type of graphics card you have, but the jpegs take full 
KR> advantage of hi-color or tru-color where the gifs look just the same in 
KR> 16.7 mill as 256 colours.

My VLB Cirrus Logic CL5428 does up to 16.7 million colours, although I
choose to run it at 800x600x64k, even though 256 colours is a bit faster.

BG> I won't be trying it at all, as I don't have a flatbed scanner.  :)

KR> with that, the stylus colour printer, and photoshop i can now do what i
KR> used to spend hours in the darkroom trying to do.

What, fucking all the secretaries you mean?  :)

KR> well nearly, a better printer would be nice but i ain't got the $10k for 
KR> one, and having undo is a great advantage over starting all over again with 
KR> another piece of film.

I take it that you need better than a 300 dpi (or is it 600 now) printer?

BG> OK, understood.  Complex stuff, this graphics manipulation...

KR> is is fun, and a major challenge to do right. probably one of the
KR> reasons that my e-mail activities will diminish in the near future.

Diminish from what, two messages per week to just one?  :)

BG> The official boundaries may well have changed since I left Sydney in 1970,
BG> but way back then, Berowra was a full-on day trip (i.e. take a cut lunch).

KR> still is, if you travel by rail, just ask wendy about it (:

Is it still necessary to change trains at Strathfield?  Either that, or
come up the north shore instead, I seem to recall.

BG> True, just like those areas between Brisbane and the GC, it won't be long
BG> before there is no longer any definitive boundary, just a massive swag of
BG> suburbs all the way.

KR> we have an advantage, most of the land to the north of us is national
KR> park, and near impossible to build on anyway.

KR> i see that my old district of redlands went lib, although i am not 
KR> surprised,

Did it?  I thought that Redlands was the only Labour seat of those which
were to be traversed by the proposed tollway, which wasn't lost.  Must
check that, but I'm sure it's correct.

KR> the population there must be nearly 70% southern migrants esp victorians 
KR> with all the new estates there now. oh, i'm sorry that cant be true, all 
KR> those new houses are for queenslanders aren't they? (:

Absolutely.  All those Queenslanders who, for some peculiar reason, drive
around with Victorian registered cars.  You should see our local shopping
centre car park - on any given day, 10% of parked cars carry Vic rego.  :)

Regards, Bill
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