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Yeah, the following sentence in TFA is weird: > Transcoding does not mean compressing everything. Images, video, and fonts are usually compressed already. It'
by TacticalCoder 13d ago
Yeah, the following sentence in TFA is weird:
> Transcoding does not mean compressing everything. Images, video, and fonts are usually compressed already.
It's because they're already lossily compressed that, precisely, they're the typical targets for transcoding.
EDIT: oops, wrote lossless instead of lossy, sorry about that
- walrus01 13d agoAdditionally modern fonts are normally vector point data, no? So there's plenty of opportunity for shrinking file size by lossless compession. But I don't think that's what they're talking about here?