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Old 07-25-2014, 10:55 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares View Post
My backup in total was about 8GB.

Is there anyway I could compress CBZ in batches? I'm blind enough that I probably wouldn't notice the difference.
It is not a good idea because jpegs are already compressed using a lossy algorithm. Getting smaller sizes means either reducing the quality noticeably or resizing the images. Either way, text can get unreadable pretty fast.

Resizing is the easiest to do: Windows has the functionality built-in. You rename the cbz to zip and extract the jpegs. Then:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...gital-pictures

Recompressing can be done with this:

http://icompressor.blogspot.com/2008...ree-image.html

Since 8 GB is only about two single-sided DVDs worth of data, you might want to archive the originals on disk before experimenting with them.
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