Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA: PCB: Throw the Bugzilla out of window

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

On Nov 19, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > > Bugzilla appears to be a shit to me. Responds to an upload of 4MB
> > > attachment with "invalid filename". "webp.ppm" is probably an invalid
> > > filename on the filesystem Sourceforge runs on. Tried with Links and 
> > > Mozilla
> > > so it doesn't seem to be a problem of browser.
> > I don't think this is bugzilla, but thats not really the point.
> >
> > Did you point your browser at the correct local file?  The tracking 
> > system
> > is limited to < 250kB or so which should be _plenty_.  Try useing 
> > jpeg or
> > PNG.
>   JPEG is absolutely the wrong compression algorithm for what amounts 
> to a line-art image.  For non-photographic scenes, there will be heavy 
> artifacting around all lines and other sharp color transitions, which 
> usually obliterate the compression ratio and in many cases make the 
> file even larger.
>
>   Not that anyone asked, but I would strongly recommend PNG.
  Hmm.  I didn't intend for that to come across as being so snotty.  
Just trying to help.

       -Dave

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