At 03:51 PM 4/14/98 -0500, JAY ECKLES wrote:
>If you have one large gif that consists of a black background with six 
>vertically aligned red rectangles with white anti-aliased text on them,
>will the file size of this large gif be the same as the sum of the file
>sizes of six smaller gifs, each one consisting of one of the rectangles 
>and immediately surrounding background of the larger gif?

Maybe yes; maybe no. In many cases, the smaller portions of the overall GIF
can be color indexed to only the colors used in each individual portion,
making its size, as a portion, smaller than if it is part of the whole. On
the other hand, if all resulting pieces contain exactly the same number of
colors as the large one, then the sum would be equal or possibly even
slightly larger (some multiple file overhead).

Barn
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