Re: AOL Image Compression

by "Cindy Stanley, SSS WebWorks" <stanleysupport(at)prodigy.net>

Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:09:39 -0500
To:	<petro(at)revthree.com>, <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Cc:	"F" <f(at)revthree.com>
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From: Petro Rondiak <petro(at)revthree.com>
>I have been trying to get an image that appears perfectly in the
non-AOL
>world to render properly in AOL. My customer is complaining about the
text
>within the image is 'bleeding'.  The image is a hybrid: text on a
photo. I
>think Adaptive .GIF is the way to go. Has anyone experienced this
problem?

Does your client have "Use compressed graphics" checked in his
*preferences* of his browser? If so, ask him to do the following:

Go to the Web and under My AOL, on the top menu, select Preferences.
Select the WWW icon.
Select the Web Graphics tab.
Uncheck "Use compressed graphics" and then click Apply.
Under the WWW icon, select the General tab.
Click the Delete Files button (you do not need to check the "delete
subscription content" box).
Click OK and then OK.
Return to the Web browser window and click on the Refresh icon (the
circular clockwise arrow icon at the top left) to get improved
graphics!

>The image can be viewed at http://www.revthree.net/momduo.gif. It
should
>render properly to non-AOL users.

It does for me.

--
Cindy K. Stanley

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