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You're right in general, but you gave the example of jpeg, mpeg and mp3 which are all lossy compression. LZW/ZIP compressed images are lossless. I suspect that
by galago 10y ago
You're right in general, but you gave the example of jpeg, mpeg and mp3 which are all lossy compression. LZW/ZIP compressed images are lossless. I suspect that applying Zip compression to font files might not reduce file size enough to be worth doing for the reason you initially stated.
- tobltobs 10y agoI guess by interpolating glyphs you also will loss information, so the comparison to jpeg makes more sense.