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To: "Charles Auer" <bumble731@email.msn.com>
Cc: tiff@sgi.com
Subject: Re: Johnson-Grace compression. 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:31:58 -0500 
             <079451832150e49CPIMSSMTPU01@email.msn.com> 
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:13:42 -0400
Message-Id: <2606.924124422@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Charles Auer" <bumble731@email.msn.com> writes:
> Is anyone aware of any library routines that might be made available to
> someone wanting to decompress Johnson-Grace ART image data?

The answer used to be "go to Johnson-Grace and buy their software"
(for beaucoup bucks of course).  But I think J-G is out of business;
selling a proprietary compression scheme is hard.  AOL owns whatever's
left.  Try asking around at AOL.

I recently heard that AOL is working on a Netscape plugin to decode ART,
but when and under what terms it will be released is anyone's guess.

			regards, tom lane
			organizer, Independent JPEG Group
