| I'd be interested in the test pieces encoded with PSP 7 if you still
| have it installed somewhere. I am curious when the rot set in.
|
That was all many years ago. Version X6 is v. 16.
V. 7 was so irritating to use that I unistalled it
after a few minutes of testing and never looked
at it again. I doubt the disk is still around.
I can't say that I understand the implications of
the problems you describe. I didn't realize there could
be so much difference in JPG conversion. (Of course
a typo in the quantisation tables would be an issue,
but again I don't understand enough to know how
much of an issue it would be.) In any case, I'm curious
about your opinion of current libraries. Do you know
anything about, say, MS gdiplus vs whatever PS uses,
vs Image Magick, vs whatever Corel uses? I always
avoided IJG because it's owned by Intel and they exerted
licensing requirements. And as far as I know that's also
been taken off the market.