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Full JPEG baseline and Huffman sequential modes are supported by Adobe’s Postscript Level 2 products. Postscript is a very widely used printing and imaging protocol.

WWW and Bulletin Board Systems use JPEG extensively for storing and delivering images. Client viewer software for most common platforms is available either commercially or for free. JPEG viewers are built into most WWW browser client software. e.g. Netscape Gold V3.0. JPEG has the advantage of not being encumbered by the patent and licence problems that the other most widely used image format, GIF (rights owned by UniSys), is burdened by. The arithmetric entropy coder mode for JPEG does have some patent problems, however, as evidenced by the fact that one company, Handmade Software, is not shipping that mode in its Image Archive image conversion product for those reasons.[2]

A number of well-established companies, such as AT&T. LSI and C-Cube, have commercially available JPEG codec systems or chip-sets for ‘full motion’ video telecommunications across networks. Software implementations also exist for still images, such as that by Xing’s VT-Compress which runs under Windows OS. Similar still image compression and decompression systems are available in software and hardware for most common operating systems and platforms. eg Macintosh, Windows 95, Unix. [2]

Free ‘C’ source code for JPEG compression and decompression is available for commercial and non-commercial use from the Independent JPEG Group.[1]