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Old 28th February 2018, 01:42   #10  |  Link
Clare
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Originally Posted by Neillithan View Post
The one thing that confuses me, is how PIK can losslessly compress better than FLIF. That doesn't make any sense to me how they achieved that.

EDIT: Nevermind! They didn't losslessly compress PIK. They simply chose the highest quality possible and marked it as Lossless. That's a bit misleading. I found this out by reading the Notes section below on the image formats comparison page.
Yes there's no lossless mode for PIK. And the minimum quality (small and tiny) are bigger than the other file formats so it's not comparable. Please check the filesize while comparing to see if they are actually similar.

For example in the example you've posted, you're comparing a 67.5 KiB JPEG to a 110KiB PIK.

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