What is the JPEG graphics format?

JPEG is an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. This graphics file format is an ISO/ ITU standard for storing raster (or bitmap) style (not vector style, like metafile) images in compressed form using a discrete cosine transform. Like bitmaps, the customization or editing options of such graph representations will be limited (typically to operations on pixels, such as stretching and shrinking, cutting and pasting, and drawing "over" the graph). The major advantage of the JPEG format is that as compared to bitmaps, it is much more economical (uses less storage space), and it is commonly used to represent graphics components of HTML files for reports that will be viewed in an Internet or intranet setting.

You can save graphs in this format by select JPEG Files in the Save as type box in the Save As dialog (accessible from the graph File menu). Note that on the Save as dialog (accessible from the File menu), an option Create printer resolution Clipboard/Report/Metafile images (best for printing) is available whenever you select the JPEG file format. This option determines the line thickness for rendering the main components of the graphs used when generating these file type representations of STATISTICA Graphs.