JPEG Compression?

Bob Hartwig bob at bobjectsinc.com
Wed Sep 5 23:39:28 UTC 2001


John,

I have a cheesy JPEGReadWriter class>>putForm:onFileNamed: method that
writes a BMP file, then uses FFI to launch a batch file that executes CJPEG
to convert it.  It works nicely, but only for Windows, and it's far from
elegant.  Let me know if you want it.

	-Bob


At 03:11 PM 9/5/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Squeak has a nice JPEG decoder written some years ago, by Tim Olsen, I
believe.
>This code was recently accelerated using primitives written by Andreas
Raab, so
>it is now reasonably fast. However, we do not have--as far as I know--any
code
>that does JPEG-compression.
>
>Thus, I thought I'd ask:
>
>  1. Does anyone have some Smalltalk JPEG decompression code that they
>      could contribute to Squeak?
>  2. If not, would anyone care to write such code?
>
>I have an application that need to re-scale JPEG's on the fly. Thus, it
need to
>both decompress and re-compress JPEG images.
>
>Many thanks...
>
>	-- John
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