>> Are they at least doing byte-packing? I can't imagine what kind of >> compression they'd be doing without that at least. > >No. As I said - 16-bit pixel values. Those don't pack. >They seem to be using packbits compression, according to the headers. >That's just a rudimentary run-length encoding (despite the name).
Ach. That's definitely rudimentary. RLE can actually expand data under the wrong circumstances. Godfrey

