On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:05:25AM +0300, Don Williams wrote: > . . . Although I have no experience of LZW I've heard that its > not a good idea.
I don't know where you got that notion. LZW is a lossless compression technique, so there won't be any image degradation. And since the last LZW patents expired recently, there aren't any problems there, either.
