Can any tell me how the newest Win Zip compairs to the newest Winrar?

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I see that Winzip has some new type of lossless algorithm allowing a
great deal of lossless compression.
I've always favored Rar (every since I gave up Arj) because it had
better compression and IMHO it was just better all around.

So can WinZip really compress Jpgs in a significant manors and do it
better than Rar?
What about Pdf files, Can the new WinZip compress these also?


Thank

Ron
 
So can WinZip really compress Jpgs in a significant manors and do it
better than Rar?
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Can *any* software significantly compress an already highly compressed
file?
What about Pdf files, Can the new WinZip compress these also?
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Some PDFs are already compressed, others are not. Some PDFs are text
based, others incorporate scanned documents. I suspect you are asking
an impossible question.

- Franc Zabkar
 
RC said:
I see that Winzip has some new type of lossless algorithm allowing a
great deal of lossless compression.
I've always favored Rar (every since I gave up Arj) because it had
better compression and IMHO it was just better all around.

So can WinZip really compress Jpgs in a significant manors and do it
better than Rar?
What about Pdf files, Can the new WinZip compress these also?


Thank

Ron
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IME 7-zip is far better


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