Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files? I sure as fuck do.

Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text. But that
doesn't stop the digital idiots.

However, FOSS has an answer:

https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png

From the link:

"jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved
as JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."

I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.

Man oh man! These FOSS people are always right on top of it!

Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

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Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files? I sure as fuck do.
>
> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text. But that
> doesn't stop the digital idiots.
>
> However, FOSS has an answer:
>
> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
>
> From the link:
>
> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved
> as JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."

Installation

A compiled Windows version is available on the "Releases" page.

(It's jpeg2png.exe).

Under Windows, you can also drag-and-drop JPEG files onto the program.

Also, the example graphics really don't show any benefit. The first example,
"Lena", the encoding is better than the bogus GIMP conversion, but the jpeg2png
is worse than the original. Why not use an original JPEG as the base. And show
numbers (file sizes).

Just my quick assessment.

--
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Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not in high place."

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:14:29 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
<pan$b93c0$1f07acd8$927f2cd1$a6f91cce@linux.rocks>:

> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files? I sure as fuck do.
>
> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text. But that
> doesn't stop the digital idiots.
>
> However, FOSS has an answer:
>
> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
>
> From the link:
>
> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved as
> JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."
>
> I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.
>
> Man oh man! These FOSS people are always right on top of it!
>
> Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Now I know you're an anti-Linux troll.

There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.

ImageMagick-im6.q16(General Commands ManuImageMagick-im6.q16(1)

NAME
ImageMagick - is a free software suite for the creation,
modification and display of bitmap images.

SYNOPSIS
convert-im6.q16 input-file [options] output-file

OVERVIEW
Use ImageMagick® to create, edit, compose, or convert
bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety
of formats (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC,
TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use
ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort,
shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply
various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons,
ellipses and B\['e]zier curves.

The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized
from the command-line or you can use the features from
programs written in your favorite language. Choose from
these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C), MagickWand
(C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++
(C++), JMagick (Java), JuliaIO (Julia), L-Magick (Lisp),
Lua (LuaJIT), NMagick (Neko/haXe), Magick.NET (.NET),
PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for
PHP (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), magick
(R), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a lan‐
guage interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create im‐
ages dynamically and automagically.
* * *
( My distro has version 6. I see now that there is a version 7:

https://imagemagick.org/
) --
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A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays.
The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology:
Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial
intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department."

On 12/22/2024 2:14 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files? I sure as fuck do.

No, because jpg is perfectly fine for charts.

> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text. But that
> doesn't stop the digital idiots.
>
> However, FOSS has an answer:
>
> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
>
> From the link:
>
> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved
> as JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."
>
> I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.
>
> Man oh man! These FOSS people are always right on top of it!
>
> Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

The only digital idiot here is you. Going from a lossy format (jpg) to a
higher quality format (png) does NOT make it look any better. All you
will end up with is a larger file that looks exactly like the original.

You need to encode the original in png, not jpg. Once its in jpg, the
stuff that is lost is gone forever.

You can pour 2 gallons of water into a 5 gallon bucket. But it is still
2 gallons of water. You can take a crappy mpg file (at 64k for example)
and convert it to a CD. But it is NOT CD-quality sound.

And BTW, there are dozens of these useless utilities for Windows.
Because there are LOTS of people just as stupid as you.

On 12/22/24 4:26 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:14:29 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
> <pan$b93c0$1f07acd8$927f2cd1$a6f91cce@linux.rocks>:
>
>> Don't you just hate it when these digital idiots present charts,
>> graphs, and even text imagery as JPEG files? I sure as fuck do.
>>
>> Do to the nature of the compression (which I won't describe) JPEG
>> compression is not suitable for charts, graphs, and text. But that
>> doesn't stop the digital idiots.

Where the assumption is that because PNG is lossless, absence of
compression artifacts is more noticeable in cartoonish graphics, so its
worth the trade of larger file sizes.

>> However, FOSS has an answer:
>>
>> https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png
>>
>> From the link:
>>
>> "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved as
>> JPEG. Examples are charts, logo's, and cartoon-style digital drawings."
>>
>> I have not tried this yet but I keep it in my toolbox.
>>
>> Man oh man! These FOSS people are always right on top of it!
>>
>> Micro$lop and its highly paid minions could never compete.
>>
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>
> Now I know you're an anti-Linux troll.

Feeb's merely just a decade or so behind the times...

> There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.
>
> ImageMagick-im6.q16(General Commands ManuImageMagick-im6.q16(1)
>
> NAME
> ImageMagick - is a free software suite for the creation,
> modification and display of bitmap images.
>
> SYNOPSIS
> convert-im6.q16 input-file [options] output-file
>
> OVERVIEW
> Use ImageMagick® to create, edit, compose, or convert
> bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety
> of formats (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC,
> TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use
> ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort,
> shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply
> various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons,
> ellipses and B\['e]zier curves.
>
> The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized
> from the command-line or you can use the features from
> programs written in your favorite language. Choose from
> these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C), MagickWand
> (C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++
> (C++), JMagick (Java), JuliaIO (Julia), L-Magick (Lisp),
> Lua (LuaJIT), NMagick (Neko/haXe), Magick.NET (.NET),
> PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for
> PHP (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), magick
> (R), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a lan‐
> guage interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create im‐
> ages dynamically and automagically.
> * * *
> (
> My distro has version 6. I see now that there is a version 7:
>
> https://imagemagick.org/
> )

Nice to see that it supports HEIC.

-hh

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:58:17 -0500, -hh wrote:

>
> Where the assumption is that because PNG is lossless, absence of
> compression artifacts is more noticeable in cartoonish graphics, so its
> worth the trade of larger file sizes.
>

Holy shiite! My knowledgeable post has caused a firestorm of
lunacy!

Well, there is no sense in arguing with idiots.

Believe what you will, but the reality is mine and mine alone.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What stupid fucks!

--
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:08:06 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
<pan$87e2$1888bc87$2efeefc0$624edfd6@linux.rocks>:

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:58:17 -0500, -hh wrote:
>
>
>> Where the assumption is that because PNG is lossless, absence of
>> compression artifacts is more noticeable in cartoonish graphics, so its
>> worth the trade of larger file sizes.
>>
>>
> Holy shiite! My knowledgeable post has caused a firestorm of lunacy!
>
> Well, there is no sense in arguing with idiots.
>
> Believe what you will, but the reality is mine and mine alone.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What stupid fucks!

"Whenever you point a finger at someone, there are three
fingers pointed back at you."

In your case, you're the guy that said there were no
even prime numbers -- and now you're the guy that thinks
some new utility is the bee's knees, when ImageMagick
has been around since 1999.

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On 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 GMT, vallor wrote:

> My distro has version 6. I see now that there is a version 7:

Fedora 40 has 7.1.1-41, Ubuntu doesn't have it at all. It must be a Fedora
default package. I've used it long ago but it isn't something I would have
a use for and install.

On 2024-12-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>> My distro has version 6. I see now that there is a version 7:
>
> Fedora 40 has 7.1.1-41, Ubuntu doesn't have it at all. It must be a Fedora
> default package. I've used it long ago but it isn't something I would have
> a use for and install.

I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.

--
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

On 22 Dec 2024 22:14:50 GMT, vallor wrote:

>
> "there are three
> fingers pointed back at you."
>

Yes. Fingers that would otherwise be stuck in their asses.

--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.

Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading
126 packages and a new kernel :)

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>> My distro has version 6. I see now that there is a version 7:
>
> Fedora 40 has 7.1.1-41, Ubuntu doesn't have it at all. It must be a Fedora
> default package. I've used it long ago but it isn't something I would have
> a use for and install.

I use imagemagick all the time. Sign the various spots in a document, then scan
each page to JPEG format (better than PNG for emailing), save each one with an
ordinal name, then:

$ convert *.jpeg official-document.pdf

Easy peasy!

We also used imagemagick (and libreoffice) to convert a variety of documents to
PDF for a project at work (years ago). This was on Windows.

It's also an easy way to take a screen shot (root window or a specific window):

$ import screenshot.png

More options than you can shake a stick at.

--
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-- Samuel Goldwyn

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.
>
> Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading
> 126 packages and a new kernel :)

Just upgraded on the Debian Sid box, and aptitude wanted to remove skanlite
(the scanner I use for documents)!

So I look at the next solution, which says to keep the related packages at
their current version.

Heh heh, the sig reminds me:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dsandler/1259007648

--
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 +0000, vallor wrote:

>
> There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.
>

[snip assholery]

It is useless to argue with total idiots but I have some time to waste.

This program is NOT a converter. Understand assholes?

This program addresses the following problem:

Certain types of digital images such as line drawings, text, cartoons,
graphs, etc. should not ever be compressed using JPEG compression.
The reason is that such images contain a lot of very sharp edges
that require extremely high spatial frequncies to reproduce. The
nature of JPEG compression is to throw away those high frequncies.

Needless to say, when such images are compressed with JPEG the
result is chock full of highly visible artifacts and distortions.

This jpeg2png program attempts to remove those artifacts and create
a distortion-free result that is saved as a PNG image.

There are idiots all over the Internet. Most, if not all, will
use Microslop Winblows to do their production work. When the time
comes to save their images they just stupudly press the JPEG compress
button without enderstading the consequences.

I encounter this idiotic junk all the time and now there is a specific
program, jpeg2png, that is designed to provide a remedy.

But one cannot fix stupid, just like one cannot argue with idiots.

This group is FULL of total idiots.

--
Hail Linux! Hail FOSS! Hail Stallman!

On 12/23/2024 8:43 AM, Lameass Larry P wrote:

> This group is FULL of total idiots.

No doubt about that:

* Computer programming has absolutely NOTHING to do with coding.

* I need to train some stupid bitch to do the coding for me, but
bitches have no aptitude for it. A bitch can be trained to cook,
clean house, and even type up a document. But coding? Never.

Chris Ahlstrom wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.
>>
>> Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading
>> 126 packages and a new kernel :)
>
> Just upgraded on the Debian Sid box, and aptitude wanted to remove skanlite
> (the scanner I use for documents)!
>
> So I look at the next solution, which says to keep the related packages at
> their current version.

It turned out that the update broke Qt. Skanlite, qsynth, skanlite.... none
would work. I had to go back into aptitude, update again, and select a
different solution.

Hardware note: I saw a cheap ($7) USB-to-3.5mm headphone jack and bought it so
that I could free up my Berhinger UCA202 audio codec box. Plugged into a USB-2
port on the back of the mini PC, plugged in my speakers, tweaked mpd.conf and
used pavucontrol to make that dongle the default audio output.

Also edited .xbindkeys (changed "CODEC" to "Audio" to reflect the new device's
name as shown via "aplay -l") to control the new device using the amixer app.

Nice change o' pace.

--
The early worm gets the bird.

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:26:07 +0000, vallor wrote:
>
>> There's no way you don't know about ImageMagick.
>
> [snip assholery]

:-D More assholery to follow :-D

> It is useless to argue with total idiots but I have some time to waste.
>
> This program is NOT a converter. Understand assholes?
>
> This program addresses the following problem:
>
> Certain types of digital images such as line drawings, text, cartoons,
> graphs, etc. should not ever be compressed using JPEG compression.
> The reason is that such images contain a lot of very sharp edges
> that require extremely high spatial frequncies to reproduce. The
> nature of JPEG compression is to throw away those high frequncies.
>
> Needless to say, when such images are compressed with JPEG the
> result is chock full of highly visible artifacts and distortions.
>
> This jpeg2png program attempts to remove those artifacts and create
> a distortion-free result that is saved as a PNG image.

:-D

Cannot restore what is not there. One can, with knowledge, edit the
image to add in a guess as to the missing information.

This seems to be interesting, AI to upgrade a jpeg:

https://www.upscale.media/product/jpeg-images-into-high-quality-photos

> This group is FULL of total idiots.

Can't argue with that! :-D

--
Universities are places of knowledge. The freshman each bring a little
in with them, and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates.

On 12/23/24 2:06 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2024 22:14:50 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>>
>> "there are three
>> fingers pointed back at you."
>>
>
> Yes. Fingers that would otherwise be stuck in their asses.
>
>

If they're cro-magnons, that's for sure :) It's therapy aimed at living
with the knowledge that they're cro-magnons, not Modern Humans.

On 12/23/24 7:43 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> It is useless to argue with total idiots but I have some time to waste.

You're too generous. Leave it to your dick like how I do it :)

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:01:06 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>
> Cannot restore what is not there. One can, with knowledge, edit the
> image to add in a guess as to the missing information.
>

That is true.

But at least this program attempts to restore the lost info
that should not have been lost save for "operator error," i.e.
idiots.

I have not yet tried this program but I have tried the program
that is listed in his references. On the botched images that
I have tried it didn't work that well. (Can't fix stupid.)

>
> This seems to be interesting, AI to upgrade a jpeg:
>
> https://www.upscale.media/product/jpeg-images-into-high-quality-photos
>

This program is only the application of AI (neural networks)
for image "upscaling" or enlargement.

It does not address the problem of image RESTORATION that is the
result of idiots not knowing how to properly compress a digital
image.

The programs to which I allude attempt to tackle image RESTORATION.

On 2024-12-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 05:59:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> I haven't checked my Fedora machine in a while. I guess I should.
>
> Thanks for reminding me. It's been a couple of days so it's only upgrading
> 126 packages and a new kernel :)

I still haven't checked mine. It's probably got a couple thousand files
ready and waiting for updates.

--
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what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

Diego Garcia wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:01:06 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Cannot restore what is not there. One can, with knowledge, edit the
>> image to add in a guess as to the missing information.
>
> That is true.
>
> But at least this program attempts to restore the lost info
> that should not have been lost save for "operator error," i.e.
> idiots.
>
> I have not yet tried this program but I have tried the program
> that is listed in his references. On the botched images that
> I have tried it didn't work that well. (Can't fix stupid.)
>>
>> This seems to be interesting, AI to upgrade a jpeg:
>>
>> https://www.upscale.media/product/jpeg-images-into-high-quality-photos
>
> This program is only the application of AI (neural networks)
> for image "upscaling" or enlargement.
>
> It does not address the problem of image RESTORATION that is the
> result of idiots not knowing how to properly compress a digital
> image.
>
> The programs to which I allude attempt to tackle image RESTORATION.

Claude Shannon is laughing his ass off at you.

--
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle
unless there be two. -- Seneca

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:58:00 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>>
>> The programs to which I allude attempt to tackle image RESTORATION.
>
> Claude Shannon is laughing his ass off at you.
>

I hope not because if so his academic colleagues would suspect
his competence.

As the references in the web page attest, the information is not really
lost but can be inferred from the stored quantization tables:

"Our algorithm is based on an adapted total variation minimization approach
constrained by the knowledge of the input intervals the unquantized cosine
coefficients belong to. In this way, we reconstruct an image having the same
quantized coefficients than the original one, but which is minimal in term
of the total variation."

If Shannon is laughing it's at someone else. Perhaps you?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Diego Garcia wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:58:00 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>>> The programs to which I allude attempt to tackle image RESTORATION.
>>
>> Claude Shannon is laughing his ass off at you.
>
> I hope not because if so his academic colleagues would suspect
> his competence.
>
> As the references in the web page attest, the information is not really
> lost but can be inferred from the stored quantization tables:
>
> "Our algorithm is based on an adapted total variation minimization approach
> constrained by the knowledge of the input intervals the unquantized cosine
> coefficients belong to. In this way, we reconstruct an image having the same
> quantized coefficients than the original one, but which is minimal in term
> of the total variation."

Show the equations.

--
I've always felt sorry for people that don't drink -- remember,
when they wake up, that's as good as they're gonna feel all day!

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:38 -0500, DFS wrote:

> * Computer programming has absolutely NOTHING to do with coding.

Which one has to do with software?