Scott, if you're working on a Mac, your file is incorporating some of the
resource information required by your operating system. This is why people
use Debabbelizer--it removes that stuff. In that the PC doesn't burden the
file with resource information (and my guess would be that Intel is NOT
creating their GIFs on a Mac), the files are typically smaller without
running them through any special filtering device.

At 01:07 AM 2/20/98 -0500, Scott Trinh wrote:
>	I am designing a website who's layout is somewhat similar to Intel's
>(www.intel.com).  I downloaded their transparent gif buttons, to find that
>they are only about 900 bytes a piece!! How do they do that, still using
>8bit color (for the font smoothing), and still be so small?!
>	I made images in 24bit color (16m colors) in PaintShop, and put my
>antialiased text in there, and everything, and then I reduced the colors to
>24 colors (which is still 8bit, but that's all I can do), and save it as a
>transparent gif.  It still comes out to about 2k. !!  What am I not doing
>(or doing) that is the difference.
>	Thanks in advance.
>
>-(  scott
> 
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