JPEG: Compatibility

The complete JPEG standard comprises of a variety of different options and operating modes. A lot of applications and import filters does not support all of them. Often compatibility problems arise, if professional applications generate files with rarely used features.

As a quasi-standard JPEG was already in use before the final definition of the standard was available. However, most of the problems regarding this have been eliminated in the course of the development.

Due to the large spreading and because of the restriction on conventional fields of application, compatibility problems are not of importance in practice.

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