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Dave Korn wrote:
> Half a megabyte times thousands
> of list users only one or two of whom may actually want it == lots of waste.

Really

$ du -s test.jpg.bz2
336K    test.jpg.bz2

That was the simplest JPG I had at hand. Probably, I should have put a 
link to some other JPG. Sorry, I will consider this next time. Sorry!

> it's probably down to an autoconf test disabling the feature based
> on the libs installed on the maintainer's build machine.

In any case, if you are just curious, you can verify your hypothesis 
converting to PDF a JPG: but you need at least GM installed.

I have tried to compare the two PDF, but I do not see any clear indication.


Thanks,
Angelo.

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