Re: jpeg image does not show in background

[Piscium]

On 1 October 2010 19:10, Colin D Bennett <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:40:38 +0100
> Piscium <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 1 October 2010 15:15, Tom Davies <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > jpg compression does some horrible things to pictures especially if
>> > you try to resize after cropping or doing anythign to them really.
>> > Why not stay with png?
>>
>> That is a good point. And I might add that it takes only one minute to
>> convert a file from jpeg to png (manually).
>
> Well, converting from JPEG to PNG is really pointless since it won't
> improve quality at all--the details already lost in JPEG compression
> can't be recovered.

Well, yes. The point of converting is when grub2 for some reason
displays png well but cannot display jpeg - conversion then is a
workaround.