Evan Carew wrote:
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Try PNG. None of the limitations of gif, decent lossless compression,
and no artifacts like jpeg when displaying line drawings.
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I did that for a while but got a lot of flack about "unrecognized"
file formats. Maybe it's mroe common now?

But you are right about png's properties.
Very nice way.