Jay wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:

Lenona wrote:

(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips >>>> get mentioned here!)

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20

You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so
with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me,
even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge.
There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

When you click the ... on the right-hand side of the panels it offers
to display this transcript:

Transcript:
B.D: To dreeam the American dream... to punt when your arms
are too weeary... Dum de dum! Bernie: There seems to be a
certain spring to your gait this morning, B.D. B.D: Yeah, I
feel good, Bernie. I don't know why. Could be the start of
the new football season, or it could be the new mood of the
country! Bernie: There's another mood afoot? B.D: Where you
been, Bernardo? Haven't you noticed? People don't feel bad
anymore. They've stopped feeling guilty. Hard to believe it
was only a year ago that Carter was harping on malaises,
limits, all that negative stuff! Bernie: You don't think
there are limits to our national resources, B.D? B.D: Hell,
no! This is the greatest can-do country in the world,
Bernie! All that emphasis on restraint and conservation was
sapping our strength! That's the Reagan genius, Bernie -
Ronnie understands that sacrifices can be depressing. That's
why he's giving us low inflation, a strong defense, big tax
cuts and a balanced budget all at the same time! No one
stuffers but the poor, and they're used to it! It's almost
like a dream, you know? Bernie: Almost exactly.

Carter was the last fiscally honest President. He was a Christian who counseled Americans to live within their means.
Reagan practiced the "deficits don't matter" debtors' creed.
Americans had to "keep up with the Joneses."

Danke,

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In article <rs7cjjtkgu6umjlk634mru8pj3s79uq2p4@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:13:25 -0600, "Jay E. Morris" >><morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:

On 11/13/2024 10:20 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:11:54 +0000, Lenona<lenona321@yahoo.com>
wrote:

(I'm not sure why I bothered saying "OT" when so many other comic strips >>>>> get mentioned here!)

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20

You can enlarge it.

It's actually easier to read when not enlarged. Apparently, it isn't
the sort of image that enlarges well.

That's always a problem with the Doonesbury comics and especially so >>>with the Sundays. At normal size the type is often too small for me, >>>even on my 17" screen, and when blown up it just becomes a smudge. >>>There's a small sweet spot for me where I can just read it.

The current ones on http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/ don't have
any problem here; CTRL+ done twice (daily) or once (Sunday) is usually >>quite sufficient and no fuzziness appears. (I always return it to
normal size using CTRL0).

But that depends on the image type. It is apparently a PNG file at >>http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/. But the image in >>https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1981/09/20 appears to be a GIF
file.

I have long-since forgotten any technical details I ever knew about
image files. However, I would say that the PNG appears to be something
that is drawn (and so scales well) while the GIF is a bitmap (which
doesn't scale well). But, for all I know, they are both bitmaps, and
the difference is in the HTML of the page they are embedded in.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

They are both bitmap formats. In either case you can't get more than
the scan resolution out of them. I suspect the older strips were scanned
for the early slow-speed web to make them load faster and somebody needs
to rescan them from paper. (Which would be tedious & expensive for something >nobody is paying for).