Re: How does JPEG work?

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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:48:00 -0800, JB <JB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was advised to save online images/pictures as JPEG so I could successfully
transfer them to a blog space, but I don't know what a JPEG is, where it is
in Word, and how to use it -- in fact, I know nothing about it. Can someone
please help me?

Thanks.

--JB

JPEG is an acronym for "Joint Photographic Experts Group", the committee that
designed a standard for compressing photographic (and other) images. Files that
use that standard typically have the extension ".jpg" in their names.

None of this is particularly related to Word, except that the Insert > Picture
command can insert a picture from a .jpg formatted file among many others.
Saving a picture in the .jpg format is done by other programs, mostly graphic
editors and viewers. Most of them can open a picture in one of the other formats
and resave it as .jpg format. You already have Windows Paint, which you'll find
in the Windows Start menu. A popular third-party program is IrfanView, which you
can download for free from http://www.irfanview.com.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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